# The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your location and search history | The Guardian

<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/16/geofence-warrants-reverse-search-warrants-police-google>

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## What Jamie wrote

Location data **and** keyword search data used without any other probable cause.

> In other words, with reverse search warrants law enforcement is still looking for their suspect and they’re asking tech companies to give them a list of people to investigate. For geofence warrants, anyone in a certain place at a certain time becomes a suspect and is subject to further investigation which could mean giving police even more of their user data. For keyword search warrants, another relatively new mechanism to obtain user information that has emerged, anyone who searched for a certain phrase or address becomes a suspect.

I knew about the geofence warrants, but I didn’t realize that was happening with keyword searches too. Good idea to to switch to Duck Duck Go and stop using Google for search.

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