My first (!) Businessweek cover: Investigators are increasingly using warrants to obtain location and search data from Google, even for nonviolent cases—and can end up looking through the user data of people who had nothing to do with a crime.
with my great reporting partner, Julia Love
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-09-28/google-user-data-is-police-s-top-shortcut-for-solving-crimes?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTY5NTkwODQwMCwiZXhwIjoxNjk2NTEzMjAwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTMU9HSFFUMVVNMFgwMSIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJFNzAxNENGQzIzNTI0MzU0QTVENUY2QkREMDAxOEU3NiJ9.hQdndsctzUxy26-09-BmMVCSacJkYBdNNw1Awmb48ns