Geofence Warrant
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A geofence warrant is a court order asking a technology company for the location data of every device that was inside a drawn area during a set window of time. Instead of naming a suspect, it starts with a place and a time and works back to the people who were there, which is why it is sometimes called a reverse location warrant.
Courts are divided over whether a warrant that sweeps in everyone nearby is too broad, and some companies have changed how they store location history in response. For preppers, it is a reminder that a phone's location history is a record someone else can be asked for, and the habits in our guide on how to avoid being tracked online decide how much of it exists.
This entry is general information, not legal advice.
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After the break-in down the street, police served a geofence warrant, and everyone who walked a dog past that corner that night ended up in the results.
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