Police Tracking Data Abuse

Sounds like another way for cops to launder illegally obtained information.

You missed the part where they illegally used private data to ascertain every individual in the area.Then cross reference et cetera.There was the illegal part, at the beginning. The police could have just put in the effort and checking on information from various channels, determined the same information. However, that requires effort and occasionally intelligent actors. So, instead, they do the illegal part, scrub that from the record, and pretend they figured it out, with a pencil and a

if there is no PII to connect then there is nothing for cops to find?

Yes, it keeps randoms out. Be careful asking friends in law enforcement to look something up for you. Requests are logged. And if another law enforcement group has an alert set, you will get a visit asking why you were asking.

No issue then since the government and police especially have a good track record of following policies and rules that’s aren’t the law. /sOnly be able to access it when a crime occurs how? They’ll get a warrant or an officer says a crime occurred and asks for access?

Sounds like a great side-channel attack vector for law enforcement.

I have a feeling the interaction with the police in a lot of jurisdictions would go something like:“This person at this address tried to track me without my consent! Here’s the documentation from Apple!”“Ma’am, has the person at this address murdered you?”“No.”“I’m afraid there’s nothing we can do right now. If this person does murder you, please call 911 immediately.”

It is illegal but cops don't care because they want the same data. Time for a massive class action lawsuit.

Most law enforcement actions are predicated on circumstantial evidence.We already provide such information, which is completely legal.For instance, if there's a pipe bomb, police track down the list of people who've bought ingredients from the bomb (from retailers, cell phone companies) and other sources of information to narrow down the list of probable suspects.The Boston bombers were caught by such techniques. I don't see why this is any different.

it is probably possible to collect that on police cars but I suspect police has access to it, so not very useful