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Your "on demand" makes it read like they don't need to get a warrant whereas your link describes a missing-children investigation that had already made the national news, i.e., a situation in which getting a warrant would be very easy.


I've had it used on me personally without a warrant. There are no deep controls on this tech. You just have to know someone who can do a favor.


Well, sure, but more often than not, when someone on HN gives a URL to support some point, the URL ends up not actually supporting the point. I'm curious why people do that. Why did you do it?


A warrant can be "on demand" within minutes if you can get a judge to pick up his phone.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensorvault is for Google, with the 3 linked sources being very fun reads.




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