The first time Caleb Kenyon, a defense attorney in Florida, saw a geofence warrant was when a new client received an alarming email from Google in January 2020. Local police were requesting personal data from the client, Zachary McCoy, and Kenyon had just seven days to stop Google from turning it over, the email said.
When Kenyon asked Google for more information, he received a copy of the warrant’s cover letter. It was unlike anything he or other lawyers in his network had ever seen.
The geofence warrant included a map and GPS coordinates, and instructed Google to provide identifying information for every user whose device was found within the radius of that location at a certain date and time.
“It was so bizarre that I just didn’t even have a concept for what I was dealing with,” he said.
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