Good morning. This is Quinlan Bentley with a story about how police departments have used a relatively new way of gathering cellphone location data to obtain information on criminals, and maybe even you , if you happen to be near a crime scene.
It’s called a geofence warrant , and law enforcement agencies nationwide have used them to solve crimes ranging from theft to murder.
A geofence is a location-based service that uses GPS or other cellular data to create a virtual fence around a geographic location and notes mobile devices that enter . Its use in policing has garnered challenges in the courts…