Fri. 12/15 – Did Google Just Kill Geofence Warrants?

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🗓️ 15 December 2023

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Did Google just kill geofence warrants? Intel wants you to know it’s in the AI game. Could we get a foldable iPad before we get a foldable iPhone? Soon, maybe your tv really will be spying on you to deliver ads. The AI stuffed toy that Grimes has partnered with. And, of course, The Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Sponsors: Miro.com/podcast Planet Money Podcast Links: Is This the End of Geofence Warrants? (The EFF) Intel unveils new AI chip to compete with Nvidia and AMD (CNBC) Report: Apple has ‘no concrete timeline’ for a foldable iPad, focused on OLED displays instead (9to5Mac) Marketing Company Claims That It Actually Is Listening to Your Phone and Smart Speakers to Target Ads (404Media) Cruise slashes 24% of self-driving car workforce in sweeping layoffs (TechCrunch) Grimes is working on an interactive AI toy for kids. Meet Grok. (Washington Post) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: OpenAI’s Ilya Sutskever Has a Plan for Keeping Super-Intelligent AI in Check (Wired) Tesla Autopilot Recall Threatens Its Defense in Lawsuits Over Crashes (Bloomberg) Microsoft’s Digital Crime Unit Goes Deep on How It Disrupts Cybercrime (Wired) https://www.instagram.com/techmemeridehomepod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, December 15th,
0:07.0	2023, I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	Did Google just kill GeoFence warrants?
0:11.0	Intel wants you to know it's in the AI game. Could we get a
0:14.3	foldable iPad before we get a foldable iPhone? Soon, maybe your TV really will be
0:19.7	spying on what you say to deliver ads, the AI stuffed toy that Grimes has partnered with, and, of course,
0:26.4	the weekend laundering suggestions. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:30.0	Google is confirming that it will no longer respond to GeoFence
0:36.6	warrants after making recent changes to the way maps stores users location
0:41.6	data quoting the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
0:45.0	Google announced this week that it will be making several important changes to the way it handles
0:48.7	user's location history data.
0:51.0	These changes would appear to make it much more difficult, if not impossible, for
0:54.7	Google to provide mass location data in response to a geofence warrant, a change we've been
0:59.5	asking Google to
1:05.0	search its entire reserve of user location data to identify all users or
1:09.0	devices located within a geographic area during a time period specified by law enforcement.
1:14.2	These warrants violate the Fourth Amendment because they are not targeted to a particular
1:17.4	individual or device like a typical warrant for digital communications.
1:21.6	The only evidence supporting a geofence warrant is that a crime
1:24.2	occurred in a particular area and the perpetrator likely carried a cell phone that shared
1:28.6	location data with Google. For this reason, they inevitably sweep up potentially hundreds of people who have no connection to the crime under investigation and could turn each of these people into a suspect. GeoFence warrants have been possible because Google collects and stores specific user location data,
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