So what you are telling me is that judges are signing off on warrant without sufficient data for probable cause - or even reasonable articulable suspicion of a crime. The judges are not following the law and are aiding and abetting the cops violation of the law.
Yup that’s pretty accurate for the most part, at least they will never get fired nor will they receive any flak for doing that so why do the right thing when it could put you in jeopardy ?
Yep, that's pretty close. Police are held accountable for how many crimes are "solved" and how quickly an arrest is made. Justice? That's the courts problem. That creates a conflict of interest. While police usually protect the public and most police don't want to jam-up an innocent person there are certainly many in law enforcement who just don't' care.
Regarding Mr. Molina’s plight, a lot of cops are just plain lazy and bad at their jobs. Once they find some plausible suspect, no further investigation is needed in many cases.
History has proven you right more times than anyone would like to admit, especially when it came to minorities. Many cases have shown deliberate actions taken to prosecute an innocent person by police, DA’s, and judges.
We had a guy in Sweden who reported his wife as missing, she had went for a walk but did not come back, ofc the police arrest him as "prime suspect", the poor guy spends like 6 months in lock-up awaiting trial before someone walking the forest finds her, she had been trampled to death by a Moose...
They'll be right on your doorstep ten minutes from hearing you paid a penny short on your taxes. But finding a missing person or fighting crime.. they'd have to arrest their bosses and one another.
I've studied this issue too. A faraday bag is a good defense against driving while texting. Disabling location features doesn't work to prevent EM waves coming to and from your phone, and Google still collects location data regardless of what options you select. Google lost a case about this merely due to lack of consent. You have to consent now to operate a Google phone.
*GOOD NEWS* - This happened March 2022. A warrant that used Google location history to find people near the scene of a 2019 bank robbery violated their constitutional protection against unreasonable searches, a federal judge has ruled. The decision - believed to be the first of its kind - could make it more difficult for police to continue using an investigative technique that has exploded in popularity in recent years, privacy experts say. The ruling came earlier this month in a closely watched Virginia case in which the robbery suspect argued that the use of a “geofence warrant” violated the Fourth Amendment. Geofence warrants seek location data on every person within a specific location over a certain period of time. To work, those people must be using cellphones or other electronic devices that have the location history feature enabled. U.S. District Judge Hannah Lauck found that the warrant violated the constitution by gathering the location history of people near the bank without having any evidence that they had anything to do with the robbery.
Police are getting out of hand, and are lying more than ever due to the use of these mobile tracking devices. Truth goes out the window as the accumulation of more money for the cops takes precedence over truth.
And yet, when I tell people I do not have a cell phone because I don't want to be tracked everywhere I go...they look at me like I'm nuts...."Nobody give a damn where you go." Uh...then WHY DO THEY TRACK IT? Seriously. If I followed and recorded you everywhere you went, you'd tell me to f off or you'd call cops...because I'm stalking you. When APPLE does it, you pay them to stalk you. I'm the nut, yep.
@@killertigergaming7395 Did you miss the part about $2000? also, a lot of phones are built where even if the phone itself doesn't have a battery in it, several mechanisms can ping nearby towers
@@nathanielbass771 uh maybe what are you talking about 2000 dollars you mean the librem thats a joke of a phone and is only a phone you buy if your braindead rich and bored. cheaper phones are just as private
As a software developer, we could already see things going this way back when smart phones were released. Now its not limited to your phones, cars with GPS technology built-in are now tracking/recording/reporting/archiving your location. Car companies will also have more access to shut down cars remotely. I mean pretty sure OnStar was capable of this a while back, but now that everybody is buying Tesla's like hotcakes it'll be harder to opt-out of "features" like this. Eventually law enforcement will get access and they'll be able to shut down cars in a specified area whether you're guilty of a crime or not. How many of your that own a Tesla have control over what software your car is currently running? What if you don't agree with what its running?
@@K9Megahertz It's always been available (before smart phones) with triangulation (which is accurate in the suburbs and very accurate (down to which side of the street you are on and outside which building) in the CBD. It's not just Teslas with internet and GPS. Lots of cars have a permanent connection to the internet and can be tracked. Look for those guys who hacked a jeep and shut it down driving down the freeway. Basically got into the CAN remotely and could turn the radio on, engage the ABS so the brakes wouldn't work, blast the horn, turn on the wipers, etc etc Over here, the police have more powers than the USA. If you have no phone and no GPS tracker in your vehicle they can get you by your rego plate. Quite a few cop cars have auto plate readers plus certain roads have auto plate readers on them too. Pretty easy to track someone either way.
@@K9Megahertz You might be young, this was already available since radio broadcasting was around. I'm talking about your common radio and radio antennas
Another issue I have with these warrants is the judges who sign them. Seems that judges now days are mere rubber stamps who sign anything put in front of them.
It's particularly bad in cases involving *any* tech. If they're told an app is 100% accurate, then they will blindly sign the warrant based on that app. They will not research it themselves. We've had several judges either allow wrongfully initiated cases while dismissing others based on their complete lack of understanding of digital tech and it's effects.
Even at the highest possible levels. Has ANYONE gotten in ANY trouble for the falsified affidavit submitted to the FISA court that resulted in a 35 million dollar investigation into the Russian Collusion Hoax??
They were allowed this kind of "discretion" after 2001. You can't put the genie back in the bottle now. And most of us can't do anything to stop it. I work in a 24/7 operations environment where a cell phone is a must and is even provided by the employer to make sure you have one and are reachable. If it wasn't for that, I'd have a faraday bag as I rarely use my phone. I also only have apps installed that I actually use as most need access to everything on your phone to use. I'm an older guy, in my fifties now. When I talk to today's youth, they don't care who tracks them, who collects info on them, or who they sell it to. They grew up with it, so it's completely normal to them. And if someone offers them something for free, then they can't agree to sell their data fast enough. Today's generation grew up without privacy so they don't value it. That will be one of the things that causes their downfall.
I had a coworker once, who's wife accused him of drinking at a local bar ( recovering alcoholic ). His phone asked him to give a google review, because he " visited the place ". Turns out he was stopped at the red light, and that bar is located on the street corner. The next day, we had to hear all day long, about how stupid is wife was, for not believing him.
Had this happen to me, the store behind the Gas station got Robbed, and i was filling my tank in the area. Cops actually said they could arrest me for not cooperating with them. This was after I had already talked to them for 30 minutes. The SGT in charge said I would be watched for awhile, even after i proved that I had nothing to offer as i was not able to see what had happened.
would cooperating with them be by perjury in court , discrediting the case by being a witness that saw nothing or by showing abuse of power to the DA and internal affairs ? XD I wouldn't be brave enough to say as much unless I was held unreasonably, but there are so many things wrong with what happened to you
Quick story about "turning off" your Google Location. I did just what you suggested, answering "yes" to the question, "are you sure? This will mean you will feel lost forever and never remember what great places you've been😂". Six months later, I got an email from Google happily sharing with me my location history for the past 10 years, for my enjoyment, of course. Moral of the story is, if you turn it off, you are only blocking YOUR use of it. They can and will still access it. I like the farady bag, and have a few 😀
As someone who is very privacy centric, I can say this video was beautifully researched. It's scary how much data companies will collect if you let them as well as the various places it'll end up.
New Sub here. Wow I learned allot and as an Ex-LEO I totally agree with you that one should never talk to the Police especially without an Attorney Present as they will contort your words and screw you over, guilty or not.
that same shxt happened to me twice, reporting an incident where i was the victim, then i was the one told i could be arrested...i was totally innocent, the uk has the oddest policing structure
Anything you say can and will be used against you... Not for you, not to help you out, not to prove your innocence, but to screw you over and give them points.
Loved the Office Space reference! As a former security tech, I have a couple insights to add... First, don't smash any electronic device that has lithium ion batteries in it with any kind of tool, because the batteries will catch fire or even explode if punctured. Yes, I've actually witnessed a Lithium Ion battery explode in person after a coworker had punctured it during a self-repair project at his home workshop. Secondly, be aware that certain "privacy focused" devices are actually designed and sold by governments to entrap people who think the government is not watching, when in fact they still are. I'll try to find one of the articles where America and Australia were working together on just this very thing. Several people were arrested because they thought they were safe from prying eyes. Third, the same is true with custom Android operating systems. While the "secure" devices were a physical product, they were also allowing people to download the "privacy centered" Android based operating system. The open source projects mentioned are not government honeypots, and are less likely to have government/3rd party tracking code in them, however, the fact that they are open source means that anyone can view and modify any part of the open source code. While there are measures in place to catch malicious code through moderators and, well, the community members, not everything is always caught right away. As with everything, there are tradeoffs. Regardless of what option is chosen, if you choose to install Google services, which is required for almost any Google app, then you are essentially nullifying any and all efforts to make your device anonymous. In summary, if you are going to go private, PLEASE research the snot out of the options. If you don't know what you're doing, or don't feel comfortable, ask someone who does, whom you can trust... And maybe pay them for their knowledge, time and efforts in helping protect your privacy. Don't place personal information on your privatized devices. DEFINITELY get a Faraday bag for each of your devices!!! Thanks for the video!!!
Here's one article that talks about the Anom OS and the devices that were sold. I couldn't find the others that I read previously, or the UA-cam video of a guy who obtained one after the fact, showing him poking around the OS. The article did mistakenly say that one could not make phone calls or use other apps on the phones, however, that was not the case when this operation was in effect. Now that the operation has ended these particular phones are useless, and all but bricked. However, the operation was wildly successful and as law enforcement is prone to do once it finds a successful trap, it will do it again. It won't let me add the link in the comments for some reason, so let me try this... pcmag com/news/ fbi-sold-criminals-fake-encrypted-phones-that-actually-copied-their-messages
Lithium-ion batteries will only "explode" (it's not an explosion) if they are charged and punctured. Even if they are charged and punctured, the results can be anything from some smoke to the battery bursting into flames (which is not an explosion; there is no flying shrapnel or debris from the battery). If the battery is dead then nothing happens.
I avoid carrying my cell when I'm away from home, not because I'm up to anything nefarious. It's because I don't like being reachable 24/7 by anybody who wants to interrupt what I'm doing.
The funny thing is that my Google tracking did the opposite. NYPD said that I fit the description of a robbery suspect. I was at the movies at the time. My lawyer contacted Google & got the geolocation data. The case was dismissed at arraignment. I ended up suing the city & the person who falsely identified me as the suspect. I spent a week in the hospital, because the cops broke my leg & arm while tackling me.
But you must have done _something_ wrong, because the innocent have nothing to fear from the cops! Right? Right? There have been more police raids hitting the wrong house in the area around my house (four) than there have been reported burglaries (three) in the time I've lived here. We're talking doors kicked in, kids held at gunpoint, houses overturned, property destroyed or confiscated, the works. Every time, the cops had a warrant and they raided the address on the warrant, but every time it turned out to be a neighbor who had actually committed the crime(s) and the cops would come back and raid the right address days or weeks later. I have no idea how any of those second raids went, if the person was guilty or if they'd disposed of all the evidence after being warned by the raid on the neighbor.
As an IT professional I can confirm that is sound advise. Sadly people do not feel the wide collection of data is an issue, until it is. Thank you for the awesome video. For recommendation, I would love to see someone compare data and consumer protection(s) from inside the USA and elsewhere. How do other countries do it and is there anything we can learn from them on how to do things better? Thank you!
As an Amazon Flex Independent Contractor, I can tell you that "Geo Fences" are GARBAGE!!! I am constantly told I am NOT at a location even though I am standing DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF THE LOCATION!!! BAD GOOGLE! BAD! :)
Google geofence is trash...the only reasonable location would be via triangulation via the cell towers/base stations and GPS signal. I remember the garbage navigation maps Amazon used and too often it was off by 200 yards or more and forced to find that location to show delivery attempt. I realized how askew big tech was by seeing this and bot behaviors online...tell me, if AI is being educated by our "current" online view, it's literally based on BS, right? haha
And that's EXACTLY what a shill would say.... do your own research, don't use google to do that research. I trust this content, not some random dude who says this shit..
After all the police procedural shows I've watched, I figured out a long time ago is that if you're going to commit a crime you LEAVE YOUR CELLPHONE AT HOME. Because if a LEA even thinks you might have something to do with it, you know they're going to try to see where you phone was during the time of said crime. Also, NEVER take a toll road because your toll tag or license plate can give you up as well.
A similar thing almost happened to me. We had a murder in town. The next day,the Texas Rangers showed up at our house because supposedly the killers cell phone was pinging close to our house. Luckily, my wife is from this small town and the cops knew her and a knew we weren't killers... But if we were strangers or were in a large city. It could have been bad.
Andrew, there was a theory that was circulating a few years ago that included a warrantless search of your phone to check for software copyright violations. Maybe you could cover ways that someone could obtain a warrant to search one's phone.
They can't search it if they can't get access to it. This is why you should not have a fingerprint or face login because they can force you to press that or look at the phone. They can't force you to type in a passcode or login pattern.
@@-JonnyBoy- nice thing about the last few android phones I've had. Even with fingerprint unlock, if you restart the phone, it'll refuse fingerprints until the actual code is entered first.
I almost came off the couch laughing. Haven't seen that movie in a few years. I actually lived that in the corporate world of the 1990's. The downsizing, the "Bob's and all the cheese being moved... The only way to win is not play the game. Which made Peter (Ron Livingston) the man. .
@@Andrewflusche that’s why these fool driving me down everywhere I go and have the community watching me but they telling alot of lies in me I never did a murder
As someone who has been living (most of) the anti-google lifestyle, I'm glad to see it spreading to more and more people. I'm still very well known as the tinfoil-hat guy for the stuff I do, but hey, it fits well with a tinkerer lifestyle as well. The fact that it takes such little reasoning to get such warrants makes me _absolutely_ sure that I'm on the right path though. A step back into the normal world is a step in the wrong direction
Oddly enough, “find my phone” feature isn’t enough to get a warrant for a stolen phone. Surprisingly, the police did knock on the door to ask about the phone. Of course the signal disappeared before they drove away.
Sounds to me like the solution here is to stalk your phone (specifically the phone, not the person who stole it) until you have an opportunity to retrieve it. Even if that's simply grabbing it out of the hands of whoever is holding it... What are they going to do, call the cops on you? (Yes, they probably will. But now the phone is in evidence, and it should come out quickly who the real owner is.)
@@nnelg8139 meh... not if you let out the air from their tires , criminals are generally Stupid and their drug addled brains have VERY short attention span
I was on the sidewalk when I saw a police cruiser parked on my right. Instead of leaning into the open window and saying Hi Officer, How's Yr Day Goin, I stared straight ahead and walked on by. All thanks to yr channel!
@@deletednet3919 Yes, but so do thousands of others living in the same community. So the financial burden is spread thin and the cops who were acting wrongly don't really feel much pain in their bank accounts.
Scary that such a broad net warrant could be issued -- certainly seems to be a 4th Amendment issue on a couple of levels (although the fact that the police simply could ask Google for the info and Google might hand it over freely comes into play, and should be more than a little scary). I'd love to continue to see "flex your rights," kind of topics like this one, showing people the intersection between their lives and the law, and how they can keep their rights safe.
seems like Google would be justified in placing an extremely high fee on such "requests" as a way of limiting them. If it is important enough you will pay for it, otherwise go pound sand. Make them think before going to that extreme. Kidnapping case, of course, but petty theft? No way! Judges should be using more sense when granting these but obviously they don't.
@@markpashia7067 I'm pretty sure that companies charge fees for providing some information, but if there's a warrant your options are to cooperate for free or go to court to challenge it. The latter generally only works when they're looking for something that's not a physical item that they'll just carry off while you're still on the phone with a lawyer.
That's horrifying. I'm one of the rare ones that does not own a cell phone, and when I hear things like this, it makes me even more glad I do not have such a device. People got on just fine before them and had to use pay phones. Not sure why everyone feels the need to be connected like that all the time. Not for me. I recall seeing an Edward Snowdon video about this topic and he showed a way to open the phone, unplug a wire in it while not in use and only plug it in when in use. That's more trouble than most would go to though, but he warned of all this tracking. Scary......
It is even worse according to my recollection, before everything snowden said got relatively sanitized. I remember the story about how the NSA got in bed with the computer industry to monitor every single key stroke and down load and up load via lower frequency FM through USB cables .
He also said don't change your behavior because of them, or they've won. He's right IMHO. I can't, and would refuse to live "looking over my shoulder" all the time. That's for people like them.
EXCELLENT video, Andrew. The overwhelming majority of people are quite unaware of how much information they are sharing with google and other tech entities.
Great video, Andy. I just want to add that I saw a report on the news a few years ago, that stated after a test, even turning off the phone won't help much. It still marks where you go. Best bet, if you want to break the law, play the "it's 1986," game. Leave the phone at home!
There is a HUGE problem with the Faraday bags that you didn't mention... your phone cannot receive incoming calls when in the bag. This might not be a problem for some people, but for some people it will, and you should be aware of it when making that decision.
I don't have a cell phone and I never have owned one for more than a brief time. I always wondered how the geolocation data could go wrong. Thanks to the uploader for this video!
These cops have names, faces and it’s known where they work. I was taught by a special forces master Sargent that I was only as safe as the last person I did wrong or they think I did them wrong want me to be. Just leave your phone at home
Or simply buy old school phones. Maybe the younger generation know doesn't know of 'em, but having your phone at home used to be a thing. Or simply one without the internet on it. Why people ever went for that I'll never get. Get an old Nokia, those are pretty long lasting.
I love your videos and the humor is so great! The info is totally what we need out here. Wish we had attorneys like you in our small very corrupt town!
Note that the flip side of that is your location data could help prove you were not in the location of a crime. Either way, your phones location never (on its own) proves YOUR location. And the best way to explain this to the police is thru a good lawyer, like Esq. Flusche.
How do you figure that? Mr. Molina was exonerated when the police discovered that it was not him, but his phone that was present. So would you consider that maybe, Mr. Molina was aware of Geofencing and could have purposefully left his phone at home, put his phone in his friend's car that was headed to the other side of town, etc. Mr. Molina could say he was with his phone and not present at or around the scene of the crime when in fact he was, iit was just his phone that was not.
My cellphone was tracking me. If I called someone a different name would show on the persons caller ID. I had it looked at and was told it wasn't a hack job but the entire phone had been reprogrammed I also started having problems with my laptop. They were using google maps to track me. It was a new phone and I had never set up maps or GPS as I hadn't had a need too. It started last July when someone I had considered a good friend went ballistic on me. She trashed my bedroom, even pulling off a bifold door. She threw a landline phone at my head and afterwards I found a dent in the wall where it hit. If I hadn't pulled my head back it would have hit me in the head. I had my tablet in my hand and hit camera and video but she realized I was taping her. She grabbed it and that's the last I saw it. What she didn't know was I had an old flip phone I was able to charge so I could at least call 911 if something happened on the road. It was in the bedroom being charged. and I did call 911. By the time I called she had beat me up and I realized she had already taken the other 2 land line phones. This cop keeps harassing me. I found a bug in my house. I realize after listening to your video their are 2 cell phones she took that. I should report. My good one I actually reported to Verizon because even though I had made the final payment the day before it broke I still had to pay the monthly fee which I cancelled. I asked what the amount I owed was and they said it was a couple dollars and I paid it. It was after this bitch stole it I got a bill for $150. I tried to work it out with them but they wouldn't listen. I got another bill and they put it in collections. I had thought it took longer than 2 months for a bill to go in to collections but it really dropped my credit rating. I'm trying to move from here. I just can't stand even living here anymore but even though my home has increased in value, almost doubled but to buy something else the prices of everything has gone way up. I'd have a good down payment but would still have to have a mortgage. I'm trying to get a lawyer that handles identity theft but not as easy as it sounds.
That is why EVERYONE needs to take self defense classes and keep things like baseball bats, knives and guns in convenient but well hidden locations around the home, AND/OR be like me and ALWAYS be armed! I carry a tiny little .380 auto on my person 24/7 its even in the shower with me (put it up on a top shelf in a sandwich bag with a washcloth over it)! Put a good solid door on your bathroom and strong locks, that will give you enough time to get your eyes rinsed out and get your weapon. NO one has a right to lay hands on you, and NO ONE is EVER unarmed when it comes to violence! (what are those two things attached to your shoulders called?) Don't believe men, then what happens when your abuser closes their hands and makes fists and goes after you? Still think they are "unarmed"?...
What a coincidence, my wife and I have been looking into getting our data privatized and will be cutting back our technology usage because of things just like this. When I really started to learn how much data MANY companies keep of you, ALL the time and that the authorities just hand it over the second it's demanded, I was shocked. Now here you are covering this exact topic around the same time. I guess a lot of people are coming to realize this stuff.
Unfortunately there is no way to privatize your data and stay out of the system. Even if you ditch your cellphone. Although that will be the bulk of you data
That is utterly terrifying! The only thing that we can do to avoid being swept up in this kind of behavior by courts and cops, is stop carrying cell phones. But that is reason for suspicion too. We are all utterly at the mercy of bad policing and insurance fraudsters.
@C. Lord They usually have less features to spy on you with, hell if you get a really basic one with a basic plan, it might not have internet or cell data at all. Just calling and texting which.. yeah that can still possibly be used against you, but it's less to pin on you.
Solid advice. Thanks for being part of helping make people aware. The more that follow it, the less & less effective a tool-of-terror it will be for those that seek to exploit it!
I used to use my phone as a bike computer forever. One day I forgot my phone at home and was riding in the middle of the night when I stopped for a break and noticed a single person laying down in a peculiar spot like they were sleeping. Odd, but I'm not gonna disturb someone. Next morning I see news reports of a body found in the same spot dressed exactly as the guy I passed "sleeping". I bought a bike computer that week and now ride with my phone off and listen to music downloaded on a burner phone. It hasn't been solved to this day and I still think of how lucky I was not to have my phone as that would have made me the sole suspect in the case.
@@noneya609 nah bums sleep on parks all the time dude. i see plenty of them along the bike paths here in ottawa. one section of it down near vanier they literally have tents and makeshift sheds in the bush. i wouldnt think anything of someone seemingly sleeping on the ground if i stopped for a rest at night.
Andrew, that clip of you destroying a phone was hilarious! Great information, not many realize just how much their privacy is invaded with modern devices. Thank You!
Yeah many are clearly unaware either they don't care cuz some of these people it wouldn't matter if they turned off all of this stuff they post it anyway pictures of where they are who they're with and how long they're away from their home so you know these people that have been posting what they do all day long how they do it where they're doing it who they're doing it with they aren't allowed to scream about privacy rights being infringed upon because they're actually putting their privacy out on the internet for all to see you can't scream privacy infringement if you're actually putting your information out there willingly and stupidly I might add now that I know I have all of my s*** turned off
This video was very informative and frightening. I am definitely going to see what I can do to make sure I don't get caught in some random electronic dragnet. There are too many innocent American citizens and cuffed, beaten, incarcerated, and tortured in our modern judicial system.
Ring cameras are known to give footage to the police without a warrant or even notification to the owner. If you get a doorbell cam, get one that stires video locally, not on the cloud.
Great video! Quick comment about the faraday bags, using them can oftentimes drain your battery since your phone will go to max power to try and connect with a tower. I usually just do airplane mode or turn off location services.
@@transtubular Thanks for the recommendation. As a software dev most of what he mentioned wasn't a surprise. I just try to limit my 3rd party exposure as much as I can without going full tinfoil hat. It was interesting to get confirmation that it's impossible to hide your location information from Apple and Google since they make the phones. Makes sense. I've been trying to de-Google myself for awhile now but it is definitely a long and annoying process.
I looked at my Google Privacy Policy.... "When you use our services, you're trusting us with your information. We understand this is a big responsibility and we work hard to protect your information and put you in control. ...... cycle-babble....
Conspiracy Theorist: "The government is injecting trackers into your body!" Meanwhile he carries his phone with him everywhere he goes, including the bathroom...
This is my favorite subject I have seen on this channel. In the future I would like to see more on this subject including PC privacy and how online activity can be used against people's freedom.
How high a standard do you think they should need to get information that, because you agreed to give it to them, is the lawful property of a 3rd party that has no privacy rights at stake?
The sad thing is sometimes the precision on gps isn’t that accurate. I’ve had my gps say I’m in one area but I’m actually somewhere else. This is just ludicrous.
I live in Virginia, according to § 19.2-56, there are very specific requirements for the issuance of a CRIMINAL search warrant. It all stems from the sworn affidavit that a crime has been committed, will be committed or likely to be committed. To lie on an affidavit of probable cause is a serious crime and should be prosecuted by the victim of it. That affidavit must also accompany the warrant when presented to the suspect, unless it was audio recorded, then within 3 days thereafter to the circuit court. So many ways for law enforcement to screw it up. Be vigilant, and know how they must act, they are OUR public servants, hold every one of them accountable to THEIR rules (codes). Protect YOUR rights or you will end up a victim. Great video Andrew. (I usually don’t have nice things to say about attorneys, you are a rare exception, well done!)
"Why did it take the police 6 days of holding Molina in a cage and interrogating him to sort this out?" I would hazard to guess it was because he didn't ask for a lawyer.
Any Judge or Prosecutor that does this sort of violations of GUARANTEED Right's under the Constitution, should be written up to the States DISCIPLINARY COUNSE FOR VIOLATING THEIR ethics WHICH THEY WERE SWORN TO, WITH RIGHT HAND IN THE AIR...TO STRICTLY ADHERE TOO. DO IT!!!!
As a note, I have pretty intamite knowledge of the neighborhood you used in your example, off Mussleman Rd. The area has had many issues with cars being broken into and vandalized. The community center has been broken into several times. Individuals have reported several incidents of homes being broken into. Much of the issue is due to the neighborhood directly behind the Rappahanock Landing community... the one that quite recently had a shooting and has been associated with a number of illegal activities. Of couse what I say is hearsay, but comes from my knowledge of the area.
Explain jury nullification, please. How it's done, why it's not something ever talked about, what penalties if any, jurors can get for mentioning or doing it, and if any states has special laws/rules about it. Thanks!
I've done that every single time I got asked "blah blah blah, and apply the law *as I give it to you".* Blurted out "Uhh, I object!" (ha!), and explain that I didn't check my brain or conscience when I walked into the building, so I'll apply the law *as I see fit* and even mentioned the _Brailsford_ case, underscoring to every other potential juror in the room, that under _Brailsford_ jurors have no only the right and the power, but the *duty,* to put the law itself on trial as well as the facts of the case. Oh, I got shot daggers by the judge, but I didn't get picked or sanctioned. Hope some of the words "stuck" to the other jurors, though. Courts have forbidden any mention of jury nullification, not because they're expressly disallowing it, but because we citizens "should already know it". That's about as idiotic as saying cops no longer need to read anyone his _Miranda_ warning, as they probably heard them a brazillion times on teevee and "should already know it".
I’ll do you one better. I was a defendant in a Threat of Terrorism charge by UA-cam - essentially UA-cam and Google were claiming that I had made threats of terrorism against them. One of the key factors was that I mentioned that I’d be visiting their campus in order to “shoot” their employees (I had meant “film” and was using wordplay on purpose). I had indeed traveled hundreds of miles to the Bay Area, but for a family event, not lethal intent. After the trip, when all the investigators zeroed in on me and eventually arrested me and took my phone to be analyzed, the detectives tried to get as much geo-location data they could from my phone, including affidavits given to Google for any and all data they had on me. Google declined to help, and UA-cam declined to help give any more of my UA-cam data (including comments that would have exonerated me). So my whereabouts, which would have proven my innocence, were never discovered by the detectives, and at the preliminary hearing the detective told the judge that although the phone data from Apple showed that I never went to UA-cam Headquarters, it doesn’t mean that I didn’t go to their headquarters. Essentially he’s trying to argue that absence of evidence of my whereabouts was not absence of guilt. The newspapers had already written that I had gone to their headquarters, so it’s as if they wanted to play up that storyline as long as possible.
So you had a bit of an adventure... I guess you know now not to use words like "shoot" if you can't afford such an adventure in the future. I would also recommend just not using Facebook or social media at all! Go on Facebook + make a threat = instant trip to the slammer!
@@OurResistance no I think I’d be fine using the word shoot, so long as I’m intending to mean “film”. That’s what the detectives got wrong. They were acting based on the old criminal code, where the only thing that could prove your guilt/innocence is the opinion of a jury, whereas the current law (based on Elonis v US) is that the guilt is only based on the intent of the perpetrator. So if my intent was to mean “film” then there’s no charges that can apply to the situation. I learned many lessons beyond that but yes it was an adventure.
@@davidswanson5669 Actually, no. They cannot read your mind to determine your intentions, so they have to go by your spoken words. There are just certain things you don't say unless you want the cops knocking on your door, such as threats to "shoot" people.
@@OurResistance I think you and I are on the same page though. I didn't want them to read my mind, because that gives them (or anyone) the ability to misinterpret what I meant. I told them when they came that I didn't mind them coming. I think the problem with society is that people never ask the original speaker what they meant. Most people in real life or on social media just hear what they hear (or read) and then decide for themselves what the original speaker meant. That's the old law. The new law requires detectives to determine what the speaker's intent was. When they came to my house, they were acting under the old law and they told me "it doesn't matter what you meant, it only matters what a reasonable person would believe you meant". Regardless, I told them what I meant, and they acknowledged it and even included it in their report. So the cops knew what my intent was, but they thought it didn't count. In my online comment about "shooting" I had clearly stated that I'd be able to shoot their employees "because the 1st amendment gave me the right to do so", so I was admittedly creating an ego trap for UA-cam. In order for them to try to censor me for making a threat, they'd have to implicitly admit that they 1. don't pay enough attention to the context of the comments that are made on their platform (if they misinterpret my comment then they surely make the same mistake across the platform, which is one of my biggest gripes with them), and 2. they don't know the difference between the 1st and 2nd amendment (I had said that 1A gives me the right to shoot their employees, and only a person who confuses 1A with 2A would think I was referring to shooting with a gun), and 3. that they don't understand the use of the word "shoot" means to "film" even though they are the worlds largest production company, who employs over 100 million content creators, who primarily shoot video (I went to college for filmmaking and believe me, anyone who has anything to do with creating film/video uses the word "shoot" daily). My casual campaign since this incident is to help people understand that speech is a two-way responsibility, where the speaker and the listener each have a responsibility to each other, where the speaker should always try to be clear in their speech when trying to convey an important message, but a listener has a duty to verify the context or intent of the speaker if they feel like the message is incongruent with normal expectations. It's no different than what you'd learn in relationship counseling.
Hasn't this kind of thing already been overturned by cases that decided "an ip address is not proof of personal guilt"? Specifically in cases of "online piracy". IIRC it's why they actually had to go under cover and seize the laptop of the guy who ran Silk Road.
"IIRC"? So, instead of you actually typing out "If I recall correctly" we all have to Google what the hell the meaning of "IIRC" is. Well, BTW, O/T, but IMHO that's taking this online abbreviation thing TDF. ("Too damn far" I made that one up myself.)
"We have been issued a Geofence warrant by a judge to arrest everyone that was breathing within the United States". The warrant excludes those associated with the system, the social elite and those that can afford a team of Bulldog type lawyers. And those captured are required to justify and verify their existence or their right to breath will be immediately stripped away.
Yeah...where ya gonna get Millions of LEO and military to do that? China...Russia, pmcs? Still not even close to 21 million Armed Combat Veterans LOYAL to Constitutional Oath of Affirmation...another 140 Million Armed Citizens...good luck..gonna be a SHORT coup...
You’re kidding right? I mean it’s a great opener for a book you’re about to write…but I don’t know if you’re serious or not. Let me know if you’re a writer or I mean, I smell a bozo… A reality check here…?
May I point out that police could have retrieved much the same information from the service provider even if using dumb phone with no GPS. If it can receive calls, it's tracking you. Prepaid phone makes it more difficult to associate phone activity with you, good point.
Yeah, and they do use it(that's generally how they track via a phone number) he never went over that in detail, But I assume telling people you shouldn't have a cellphone at all if possible does help as much since no one will follow it
Of course you have to pay cash for the phone and be wearing a disguise while you purchase it because they will track the date and time of the purchase of the TracFone and review the security footage from the store which it shows you purchasing said phone.
@@uarbor70 Very good point, thank you. Thankfully, disguise requirement has been greatly eased by now-ubiquitous face mask. Or one can hire a stranger to buy one for you (which carries risks of its own.) But even then, by tracking metadata (such as whom you are calling and how often) they still can figure out a lot about you. Of course, for vast majority of people that's too much nuisance.. especially for those posting in public message boards and thus revealing themselves.
@@steveturners1258 the real life case I actually read about they actually did hire someone to purchase the phone they tracked that person down that person did not want to go to jail for murder if he immediately roll over on the guy. Always do everything and I mean fucking everything yourself
I guess I've been categorised as paranoid as I have switched off GPS and Google tracking since my first smartphone... They can track someone using the network of antenna but it's less precise and I think Phone companies charge a fee for that. Plane mode or switch the phone off help with that but unless you do something very dodgy it's over the top as the purpose of the phone is to be able to call and be reached. Another important point is to secure your phone with a PIN or a complicated schematic...so that LEO can't open using fingerprints or face recognition.
all you're doing is turning off your access to it. It 100% is still running in the background. Newer phones save the location even when you take a picture whether location services are on or not. Or another good example is find my phone programs that can still locate it even when the phone is "off"...
“Off” doesn’t necessarily mean off. Anyway, they can find you by your phone’s proximity to other phones in the area that do have location tracking on. Also, those other phones are potentially always listening and can identify your voice through voiceprint.
Edward Snowden said they can still track a phone even when off. He said the only sure way it to take out the battery and suggested a simple flip phone that you can take the battery out of. BTW Law enforcement can now get in your locked phone easy now and the FBI has Pegasus software to get into anything.
@@richwinds7179 I think the best approach is to leave your phone at home in a Faraday bag. Pretend it’s 1985 and you only have a landline. Check for vm and texts when you get home, just like we did with answering machines.
@@Andrewflusche Please also re-watch Twelve Angry Men, and include a brief explanation of the fundamental difference between a civil and criminal jury. Thanks.
I've heard of stories about pedophile groups using other people's home WiFi to transmit child porn to others and law enforcement raiding unsuspecting people for child pornography crimes
your secure phone idea dont work at all. problem is metadata. so a phone number is an easy way to track someone but not necessary at all. for example i could simply cross reference everyone you call or get calls from which would give me your real identity real quick. but basically anything , any type of data helps to pinpoint someone. and never ever logon to your home network, or at work. never ever call your pizza parlor, or login into anything related tgo you. hell google now tracks people without cookies. we can even track pcs just by their picture render time (a value reported by browsers to the server). and even if you can avoid all data that would expose you, you still leave that data that you dont send (kinda like an inverted cross reference) and with google working so clsoe with police, you could basically cross reference every person in a district and leave a list of names not beeing tgracked at a certain time. do that for a few datapoints and it will leave a short list of people going"dark"
Google has announced three changes to how it will treat Location History data. First, going forward, this data will be stored, by default, on a user’s device, instead of with Google in the cloud. Second, it will be set by default to delete after three months; currently Google stores the data for at least 18 months. Finally, if users choose to back up their data to the cloud, Google will “automatically encrypt your backed-up data so no one can read it, including Google.”. This is a direct response to law enforcement abusing Geofence warrants.
Most excellent vid, one of your best yet. People are getting wild eyed (Adam Schiff) and acting goofy in public places over seemingly benign matters. What are the legal boundaries when confronted by such people such as someone following you around a store crying out "no mask, no mask" and how do you present yourself to the police when such incidents are escalated to their attention? Magic words that they will recognize that you are the rational party.
So what you are telling me is that judges are signing off on warrant without sufficient data for probable cause - or even reasonable articulable suspicion of a crime. The judges are not following the law and are aiding and abetting the cops violation of the law.
Damn
Yes they generally just rubber stamp them so to speak.
Corruption reaches beyond the president? Shocking!
The whole thing seems illegal.
@@musictosoothe usc 5 7311
This is a prime example of something I've been told for years. The cops' job isn't to provide justice or protect, their job is to pin it on somebody.
I just figured that out recently. Too late..!
Yup that’s pretty accurate for the most part, at least they will never get fired nor will they receive any flak for doing that so why do the right thing when it could put you in jeopardy ?
Truth and justice have NOTHING to do with law enforcement or juris prudence.
Had a cop threaten my family to make me "admit to this, WHETHER HE DID IT OR NOT, so I can close out my shift". What does that tell you
Yep, that's pretty close. Police are held accountable for how many crimes are "solved" and how quickly an arrest is made. Justice? That's the courts problem. That creates a conflict of interest. While police usually protect the public and most police don't want to jam-up an innocent person there are certainly many in law enforcement who just don't' care.
Considering I have teleported many times according to google maps while out for a walk, guess I will be arrested for violating the laws of physics.
Just teleport away! They won't be able to catch you
Regarding Mr. Molina’s plight, a lot of cops are just plain lazy and bad at their jobs. Once they find some plausible suspect, no further investigation is needed in many cases.
History has proven you right more times than anyone would like to admit, especially when it came to minorities. Many cases have shown deliberate actions taken to prosecute an innocent person by police, DA’s, and judges.
(A L0T) should have been in capital letters...
Absolutely right.
The suspect doesn't even need to be plausible, just convenient.
Most cops today only care about CLOSING cases to make it LOOK like they are working. SOLVING cases couldn't possibly matter less.
We had a guy in Sweden who reported his wife as missing, she had went for a walk but did not come back, ofc the police arrest him as "prime suspect", the poor guy spends like 6 months in lock-up awaiting trial before someone walking the forest finds her, she had been trampled to death by a Moose...
That's not right
I hope he sued. I would have
That's dirty
They'll be right on your doorstep ten minutes from hearing you paid a penny short on your taxes. But finding a missing person or fighting crime.. they'd have to arrest their bosses and one another.
Was the moose held responsible for her death?
I've studied this issue too. A faraday bag is a good defense against driving while texting. Disabling location features doesn't work to prevent EM waves coming to and from your phone, and Google still collects location data regardless of what options you select. Google lost a case about this merely due to lack of consent. You have to consent now to operate a Google phone.
*GOOD NEWS* - This happened March 2022. A warrant that used Google location history to find people near the scene of a 2019 bank robbery violated their constitutional protection against unreasonable searches, a federal judge has ruled.
The decision - believed to be the first of its kind - could make it more difficult for police to continue using an investigative technique that has exploded in popularity in recent years, privacy experts say.
The ruling came earlier this month in a closely watched Virginia case in which the robbery suspect argued that the use of a “geofence warrant” violated the Fourth Amendment. Geofence warrants seek location data on every person within a specific location over a certain period of time. To work, those people must be using cellphones or other electronic devices that have the location history feature enabled.
U.S. District Judge Hannah Lauck found that the warrant violated the constitution by gathering the location history of people near the bank without having any evidence that they had anything to do with the robbery.
Police are getting out of hand, and are lying more than ever due to the use of these mobile tracking devices. Truth goes out the window as the accumulation of more money for the cops takes precedence over truth.
This needs more like
Good news, but if it goes to the majority Roman Catholic Supreme Court, it will likely be reversed.
A sign of hope for this corrupt system of ours.
Whew!
Handy info. Thanks
"The innocent have nothing to fear" is something no sane person ever said.
The innocent have nothing to fear except the government.
And yet, when I tell people I do not have a cell phone because I don't want to be tracked everywhere I go...they look at me like I'm nuts...."Nobody give a damn where you go." Uh...then WHY DO THEY TRACK IT? Seriously. If I followed and recorded you everywhere you went, you'd tell me to f off or you'd call cops...because I'm stalking you. When APPLE does it, you pay them to stalk you. I'm the nut, yep.
@@normanplombe2889 why not just buy a phone that doesn’t do that
@@killertigergaming7395 Did you miss the part about $2000? also, a lot of phones are built where even if the phone itself doesn't have a battery in it, several mechanisms can ping nearby towers
@@nathanielbass771 uh maybe what are you talking about 2000 dollars you mean the librem thats a joke of a phone and is only a phone you buy if your braindead rich and bored. cheaper phones are just as private
As a software developer, I'm impressed how accurate this video is.
As a software developer, we could already see things going this way back when smart phones were released. Now its not limited to your phones, cars with GPS technology built-in are now tracking/recording/reporting/archiving your location.
Car companies will also have more access to shut down cars remotely. I mean pretty sure OnStar was capable of this a while back, but now that everybody is buying Tesla's like hotcakes it'll be harder to opt-out of "features" like this.
Eventually law enforcement will get access and they'll be able to shut down cars in a specified area whether you're guilty of a crime or not.
How many of your that own a Tesla have control over what software your car is currently running? What if you don't agree with what its running?
@@K9Megahertz It's always been available (before smart phones) with triangulation (which is accurate in the suburbs and very accurate (down to which side of the street you are on and outside which building) in the CBD.
It's not just Teslas with internet and GPS. Lots of cars have a permanent connection to the internet and can be tracked. Look for those guys who hacked a jeep and shut it down driving down the freeway. Basically got into the CAN remotely and could turn the radio on, engage the ABS so the brakes wouldn't work, blast the horn, turn on the wipers, etc etc
Over here, the police have more powers than the USA. If you have no phone and no GPS tracker in your vehicle they can get you by your rego plate. Quite a few cop cars have auto plate readers plus certain roads have auto plate readers on them too. Pretty easy to track someone either way.
It's a trap
@@K9Megahertz You might be young, this was already available since radio broadcasting was around.
I'm talking about your common radio and radio antennas
@@K9Megahertz That's exactly how the Obama administration murdered Michael Hastings.
Another issue I have with these warrants is the judges who sign them. Seems that judges now days are mere rubber stamps who sign anything put in front of them.
End judicial immunity
It's particularly bad in cases involving *any* tech. If they're told an app is 100% accurate, then they will blindly sign the warrant based on that app. They will not research it themselves.
We've had several judges either allow wrongfully initiated cases while dismissing others based on their complete lack of understanding of digital tech and it's effects.
Even at the highest possible levels. Has ANYONE gotten in ANY trouble for the falsified affidavit submitted to the FISA court that resulted in a 35 million dollar investigation into the Russian Collusion Hoax??
Because it's probably not judge's, it's probably magistrates.
They were allowed this kind of "discretion" after 2001. You can't put the genie back in the bottle now.
And most of us can't do anything to stop it. I work in a 24/7 operations environment where a cell phone is a must and is even provided by the employer to make sure you have one and are reachable. If it wasn't for that, I'd have a faraday bag as I rarely use my phone. I also only have apps installed that I actually use as most need access to everything on your phone to use.
I'm an older guy, in my fifties now. When I talk to today's youth, they don't care who tracks them, who collects info on them, or who they sell it to. They grew up with it, so it's completely normal to them. And if someone offers them something for free, then they can't agree to sell their data fast enough.
Today's generation grew up without privacy so they don't value it. That will be one of the things that causes their downfall.
I had a coworker once, who's wife accused him of drinking at a local bar ( recovering alcoholic ). His phone asked him to give a google review, because he " visited the place ". Turns out he was stopped at the red light, and that bar is located on the street corner. The next day, we had to hear all day long, about how stupid is wife was, for not believing him.
Loved this. I had no idea the police can issue broad warrants like that…. That’s actually terrifying.
Yes. Terrifying is a good word.
And Andrew didn't even mention Stingrays and their ilk.
@@Andrewflusche is there any firms or group of people pushing legislations to make these illegal or harder to obtain?
Lmao Edward Snowden told us the government tracks everything we do how do you think government blackmail happens they know everything
I think 911 twin towers was the pretext for that
Had this happen to me, the store behind the Gas station got Robbed, and i was filling my tank in the area.
Cops actually said they could arrest me for not cooperating with them. This was after I had already talked to them for 30 minutes. The SGT in charge said I would be watched for awhile, even after i proved that I had nothing to offer as i was not able to see what had happened.
would cooperating with them be by perjury in court , discrediting the case by being a witness that saw nothing or by showing abuse of power to the DA and internal affairs ? XD I wouldn't be brave enough to say as much unless I was held unreasonably, but there are so many things wrong with what happened to you
Fuck them mother fuckers if he said he was gona watch me for awhile I'd be like well we pay you to do something huh some real skills there
"talk" I assume the talking was telling them to piss off and making a scene the entire time.
You could have went to the institute for justice.
NEVER TALK TO THE POLICE…!!!
Alway demand to speak to a lawyer and then shut up until the lawyer arrives…!
Quick story about "turning off" your Google Location. I did just what you suggested, answering "yes" to the question, "are you sure? This will mean you will feel lost forever and never remember what great places you've been😂". Six months later, I got an email from Google happily sharing with me my location history for the past 10 years, for my enjoyment, of course. Moral of the story is, if you turn it off, you are only blocking YOUR use of it. They can and will still access it. I like the farady bag, and have a few 😀
As someone who is very privacy centric, I can say this video was beautifully researched. It's scary how much data companies will collect if you let them as well as the various places it'll end up.
Find Rob Braxman here on YT to scratch your itch about protecting your privacy.
If you have stupid Pluto app look in the settings in privacy. It's hidden they are selling your data and you can get out of it by finding it! Like huh
New Sub here. Wow I learned allot and as an Ex-LEO I totally agree with you that one should never talk to the Police especially without an Attorney Present as they will contort your words and screw you over, guilty or not.
that same shxt happened to me twice, reporting an incident where i was the victim, then i was the one told i could be arrested...i was totally innocent, the uk has the oddest policing structure
Anything you say can and will be used against you... Not for you, not to help you out, not to prove your innocence, but to screw you over and give them points.
You're getting pretty popular, its good to see more lawyers on UA-cam focused on privacy and keeping cops honest.
Loved the Office Space reference!
As a former security tech, I have a couple insights to add...
First, don't smash any electronic device that has lithium ion batteries in it with any kind of tool, because the batteries will catch fire or even explode if punctured. Yes, I've actually witnessed a Lithium Ion battery explode in person after a coworker had punctured it during a self-repair project at his home workshop.
Secondly, be aware that certain "privacy focused" devices are actually designed and sold by governments to entrap people who think the government is not watching, when in fact they still are. I'll try to find one of the articles where America and Australia were working together on just this very thing. Several people were arrested because they thought they were safe from prying eyes.
Third, the same is true with custom Android operating systems. While the "secure" devices were a physical product, they were also allowing people to download the "privacy centered" Android based operating system.
The open source projects mentioned are not government honeypots, and are less likely to have government/3rd party tracking code in them, however, the fact that they are open source means that anyone can view and modify any part of the open source code. While there are measures in place to catch malicious code through moderators and, well, the community members, not everything is always caught right away. As with everything, there are tradeoffs.
Regardless of what option is chosen, if you choose to install Google services, which is required for almost any Google app, then you are essentially nullifying any and all efforts to make your device anonymous.
In summary, if you are going to go private, PLEASE research the snot out of the options. If you don't know what you're doing, or don't feel comfortable, ask someone who does, whom you can trust... And maybe pay them for their knowledge, time and efforts in helping protect your privacy. Don't place personal information on your privatized devices. DEFINITELY get a Faraday bag for each of your devices!!!
Thanks for the video!!!
Here's one article that talks about the Anom OS and the devices that were sold. I couldn't find the others that I read previously, or the UA-cam video of a guy who obtained one after the fact, showing him poking around the OS.
The article did mistakenly say that one could not make phone calls or use other apps on the phones, however, that was not the case when this operation was in effect. Now that the operation has ended these particular phones are useless, and all but bricked.
However, the operation was wildly successful and as law enforcement is prone to do once it finds a successful trap, it will do it again.
It won't let me add the link in the comments for some reason, so let me try this...
pcmag com/news/
fbi-sold-criminals-fake-encrypted-phones-that-actually-copied-their-messages
Lithium-ion batteries will only "explode" (it's not an explosion) if they are charged and punctured. Even if they are charged and punctured, the results can be anything from some smoke to the battery bursting into flames (which is not an explosion; there is no flying shrapnel or debris from the battery). If the battery is dead then nothing happens.
You wanna go private? Buy a basic flip phone
The projects he mentioned (graphene and librem) are floss so there's not really a concern about it being a honeypot.
Watch Rob Braxton's channel here on YT. He has a lot of information on this subject.
I avoid carrying my cell when I'm away from home, not because I'm up to anything nefarious. It's because I don't like being reachable 24/7 by anybody who wants to interrupt what I'm doing.
What about your expired car warranty? LOL.
@@robertthomas5906 I always tell those guys I have a 1967 dodge rambler with 1.1 million miles on it. Oil leaks ? Yes
Tracking aside, I find that if I don't answer a call the call doesn't get answered.
@@roadmonitoroz my '82 Nissan 3000 (a forktruck)
Well, no offense, but why have a "mobile" Phone when you don't use it while away from home?
The funny thing is that my Google tracking did the opposite. NYPD said that I fit the description of a robbery suspect. I was at the movies at the time. My lawyer contacted Google & got the geolocation data. The case was dismissed at arraignment. I ended up suing the city & the person who falsely identified me as the suspect. I spent a week in the hospital, because the cops broke my leg & arm while tackling me.
Did you settle or is it ongoing
But you must have done _something_ wrong, because the innocent have nothing to fear from the cops! Right? Right?
There have been more police raids hitting the wrong house in the area around my house (four) than there have been reported burglaries (three) in the time I've lived here. We're talking doors kicked in, kids held at gunpoint, houses overturned, property destroyed or confiscated, the works. Every time, the cops had a warrant and they raided the address on the warrant, but every time it turned out to be a neighbor who had actually committed the crime(s) and the cops would come back and raid the right address days or weeks later. I have no idea how any of those second raids went, if the person was guilty or if they'd disposed of all the evidence after being warned by the raid on the neighbor.
As an IT professional I can confirm that is sound advise. Sadly people do not feel the wide collection of data is an issue, until it is. Thank you for the awesome video.
For recommendation, I would love to see someone compare data and consumer protection(s) from inside the USA and elsewhere. How do other countries do it and is there anything we can learn from them on how to do things better? Thank you!
Do you think that going into Developer options and turning on location spoofing would work?
As an Amazon Flex Independent Contractor, I can tell you that "Geo Fences" are GARBAGE!!! I am constantly told I am NOT at a location even though I am standing DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF THE LOCATION!!! BAD GOOGLE! BAD! :)
Google geofence is trash...the only reasonable location would be via triangulation via the cell towers/base stations and GPS signal. I remember the garbage navigation maps Amazon used and too often it was off by 200 yards or more and forced to find that location to show delivery attempt.
I realized how askew big tech was by seeing this and bot behaviors online...tell me, if AI is being educated by our "current" online view, it's literally based on BS, right? haha
@@ApexImportExport Quoth the Kool-aid man, "OH, YEAH!"
And that's EXACTLY what a shill would say.... do your own research, don't use google to do that research. I trust this content, not some random dude who says this shit..
Retired Chicago cop here. 20 years. Love your channel.
After all the police procedural shows I've watched, I figured out a long time ago is that if you're going to commit a crime you LEAVE YOUR CELLPHONE AT HOME. Because if a LEA even thinks you might have something to do with it, you know they're going to try to see where you phone was during the time of said crime. Also, NEVER take a toll road because your toll tag or license plate can give you up as well.
I don't commit crimes and I never bring my phone with me. They can sit and spin.
And also never set off to do a crime too. There’s a hot tip.
The judges issuing these warrants are a big part of the problem.
The judge should be removed from the bench and prosecuted.
Judges need to start facing consequences for their poor decisions.
A similar thing almost happened to me. We had a murder in town. The next day,the Texas Rangers showed up at our house because supposedly the killers cell phone was pinging close to our house. Luckily, my wife is from this small town and the cops knew her and a knew we weren't killers... But if we were strangers or were in a large city. It could have been bad.
The admonition "Don't talk to the police" has never been more appropriate.
Andrew, there was a theory that was circulating a few years ago that included a warrantless search of your phone to check for software copyright violations. Maybe you could cover ways that someone could obtain a warrant to search one's phone.
Only in the USA, land of the so-called free home of the so-called brave . . .
@@TRPGpilot that idea died once the civil war happen smh... soo late
They can't search it if they can't get access to it. This is why you should not have a fingerprint or face login because they can force you to press that or look at the phone. They can't force you to type in a passcode or login pattern.
@@-JonnyBoy- Interesting...
@@-JonnyBoy- nice thing about the last few android phones I've had. Even with fingerprint unlock, if you restart the phone, it'll refuse fingerprints until the actual code is entered first.
BEST information "EVER!" Thank you sir! You ARE the man!
I had to pause and fight laughter when you recreated the printers death scene from Office Space. Made my day.
Thanks! Filming that scene was the most fun thing I've ever done on this channel. :D
@@Andrewflusche Excellent heal stomp. But a hammer, wow, that's just a bit of a drastic step. 😂
I almost came off the couch laughing. Haven't seen that movie in a few years. I actually lived that in the corporate world of the 1990's. The downsizing, the "Bob's and all the cheese being moved...
The only way to win is not play the game. Which made Peter (Ron Livingston) the man. .
@@Andrewflusche that’s why these fool driving me down everywhere I go and have the community watching me but they telling alot of lies in me I never did a murder
As someone who has been living (most of) the anti-google lifestyle, I'm glad to see it spreading to more and more people. I'm still very well known as the tinfoil-hat guy for the stuff I do, but hey, it fits well with a tinkerer lifestyle as well.
The fact that it takes such little reasoning to get such warrants makes me _absolutely_ sure that I'm on the right path though. A step back into the normal world is a step in the wrong direction
I absolutely love what your doing! You're advice, is a true public service!! Keep doing, what you're doing!!
Oddly enough, “find my phone” feature isn’t enough to get a warrant for a stolen phone.
Surprisingly, the police did knock on the door to ask about the phone.
Of course the signal disappeared before they drove away.
Same thing happened to my girlfriend. Found the location of the phone, but they could do nothing.
Sounds to me like the solution here is to stalk your phone (specifically the phone, not the person who stole it) until you have an opportunity to retrieve it. Even if that's simply grabbing it out of the hands of whoever is holding it... What are they going to do, call the cops on you? (Yes, they probably will. But now the phone is in evidence, and it should come out quickly who the real owner is.)
Same thing happened with my brother's phone.
@@nnelg8139 meh... not if you let out the air from their tires , criminals are generally Stupid and their drug addled brains have VERY short attention span
@@nnelg8139 make sure you have a way to actually identify the phone if the cops get involved
I was on the sidewalk when I saw a police cruiser parked on my right. Instead of leaning into the open window and saying Hi Officer, How's Yr Day Goin, I stared straight ahead and walked on by. All thanks to yr channel!
Imagine they start writing speeding tickets based on your GPS data.
I'm glad to see someone got a settlement from the cops. It's about time.
Problem is cops don't pay the fines the taxpayers do.
@@lonetraveller you realize cops pay taxes too right?
@@deletednet3919 Yes, but so do thousands of others living in the same community. So the financial burden is spread thin and the cops who were acting wrongly don't really feel much pain in their bank accounts.
Scary that such a broad net warrant could be issued -- certainly seems to be a 4th Amendment issue on a couple of levels (although the fact that the police simply could ask Google for the info and Google might hand it over freely comes into play, and should be more than a little scary).
I'd love to continue to see "flex your rights," kind of topics like this one, showing people the intersection between their lives and the law, and how they can keep their rights safe.
Only in the USA, land of the so-called free home of the so-called brave . . .
seems like Google would be justified in placing an extremely high fee on such "requests" as a way of limiting them. If it is important enough you will pay for it, otherwise go pound sand. Make them think before going to that extreme. Kidnapping case, of course, but petty theft? No way! Judges should be using more sense when granting these but obviously they don't.
@@markpashia7067 I'm pretty sure that companies charge fees for providing some information, but if there's a warrant your options are to cooperate for free or go to court to challenge it. The latter generally only works when they're looking for something that's not a physical item that they'll just carry off while you're still on the phone with a lawyer.
You have no rights ,and you are pledging allegiance to an occultic lie
It appears to me a non technology guy . These phone and website co. are an extension of the Don't forget those guys.We should be afraid 😟
That's horrifying. I'm one of the rare ones that does not own a cell phone, and when I hear things like this, it makes me even more glad I do not have such a device. People got on just fine before them and had to use pay phones. Not sure why everyone feels the need to be connected like that all the time. Not for me. I recall seeing an Edward Snowdon video about this topic and he showed a way to open the phone, unplug a wire in it while not in use and only plug it in when in use. That's more trouble than most would go to though, but he warned of all this tracking. Scary......
It is even worse according to my recollection, before everything snowden said got relatively sanitized. I remember the story about how the NSA got in bed with the computer industry to monitor every single key stroke and down load and up load via lower frequency FM through USB cables .
"had to use pay phones"
Which at the time were abundant.
He also said don't change your behavior because of them, or they've won. He's right IMHO. I can't, and would refuse to live "looking over my shoulder" all the time. That's for people like them.
EXCELLENT video, Andrew. The overwhelming majority of people are quite unaware of how much information they are sharing with google and other tech entities.
Great video, Andy. I just want to add that I saw a report on the news a few years ago, that stated after a test, even turning off the phone won't help much. It still marks where you go. Best bet, if you want to break the law, play the "it's 1986," game. Leave the phone at home!
There is a HUGE problem with the Faraday bags that you didn't mention... your phone cannot receive incoming calls when in the bag. This might not be a problem for some people, but for some people it will, and you should be aware of it when making that decision.
I don't have a cell phone and I never have owned one for more than a brief time. I always wondered how the geolocation data could go wrong. Thanks to the uploader for this video!
These cops have names, faces and it’s known where they work. I was taught by a special forces master Sargent that I was only as safe as the last person I did wrong or they think I did them wrong want me to be. Just leave your phone at home
"Well, I would call a ambulance after getting in a bad crash, but I left my phone at home."
No, you're as safe as you keep yourself.
If youre paranoid enough to leave it behind, better to get a small metal box to function as a farraday cage to put it in.
@@thesocialistsarecoming8565 Bernie 2024 or you love hitler
Or simply buy old school phones. Maybe the younger generation know doesn't know of 'em, but having your phone at home used to be a thing. Or simply one without the internet on it. Why people ever went for that I'll never get. Get an old Nokia, those are pretty long lasting.
@@thesocialistsarecoming8565 lead box, cages don't work.
I love your videos and the humor is so great! The info is totally what we need out here. Wish we had attorneys like you in our small very corrupt town!
Note that the flip side of that is your location data could help prove you were not in the location of a crime. Either way, your phones location never (on its own) proves YOUR location. And the best way to explain this to the police is thru a good lawyer, like Esq. Flusche.
Your phone location could provide reasonable doubt you were at a given location but would not prove you were not there.
you assume who is accused in this manner has the 1000's to spend on a lawyer for something they DIDN'T do.
I was thinking the same thing, like giving my phone to someone to take bus trip and then getting a pre-paid to do the thing.
How do you figure that? Mr. Molina was exonerated when the police discovered that it was not him, but his phone that was present. So would you consider that maybe, Mr. Molina was aware of Geofencing and could have purposefully left his phone at home, put his phone in his friend's car that was headed to the other side of town, etc. Mr. Molina could say he was with his phone and not present at or around the scene of the crime when in fact he was, iit was just his phone that was not.
if your phone doesnt have a GPS app they can only pin point you between three points as origin, also not everyone uses google on their phone...
Id be down for my cyber security videos this was very good example of How, Tech companies are really getting one over on folks
Awesome video, sir. Appreciate all the work you put in your videos.
My cellphone was tracking me. If I called someone a different name would show on the persons caller ID. I had it looked at and was told it wasn't a hack job but the entire phone had been reprogrammed I also started having problems with my laptop. They were using google maps to track me. It was a new phone and I had never set up maps or GPS as I hadn't had a need too. It started last July when someone I had considered a good friend went ballistic on me. She trashed my bedroom, even pulling off a bifold door. She threw a landline phone at my head and afterwards I found a dent in the wall where it hit. If I hadn't pulled my head back it would have hit me in the head. I had my tablet in my hand and hit camera and video but she realized I was taping her. She grabbed it and that's the last I saw it. What she didn't know was I had an old flip phone I was able to charge so I could at least call 911 if something happened on the road. It was in the bedroom being charged. and I did call 911. By the time I called she had beat me up and I realized she had already taken the other 2 land line phones. This cop keeps harassing me. I found a bug in my house. I realize after listening to your video their are 2 cell phones she took that. I should report. My good one I actually reported to Verizon because even though I had made the final payment the day before it broke I still had to pay the monthly fee which I cancelled. I asked what the amount I owed was and they said it was a couple dollars and I paid it. It was after this bitch stole it I got a bill for $150. I tried to work it out with them but they wouldn't listen. I got another bill and they put it in collections. I had thought it took longer than 2 months for a bill to go in to collections but it really dropped my credit rating. I'm trying to move from here. I just can't stand even living here anymore but even though my home has increased in value, almost doubled but to buy something else the prices of everything has gone way up. I'd have a good down payment but would still have to have a mortgage. I'm trying to get a lawyer that handles identity theft but not as easy as it sounds.
That is why EVERYONE needs to take self defense classes and keep things like baseball bats, knives and guns in convenient but well hidden locations around the home, AND/OR be like me and ALWAYS be armed! I carry a tiny little .380 auto on my person 24/7 its even in the shower with me (put it up on a top shelf in a sandwich bag with a washcloth over it)! Put a good solid door on your bathroom and strong locks, that will give you enough time to get your eyes rinsed out and get your weapon.
NO one has a right to lay hands on you, and NO ONE is EVER unarmed when it comes to violence! (what are those two things attached to your shoulders called?) Don't believe men, then what happens when your abuser closes their hands and makes fists and goes after you? Still think they are "unarmed"?...
What a coincidence, my wife and I have been looking into getting our data privatized and will be cutting back our technology usage because of things just like this. When I really started to learn how much data MANY companies keep of you, ALL the time and that the authorities just hand it over the second it's demanded, I was shocked. Now here you are covering this exact topic around the same time. I guess a lot of people are coming to realize this stuff.
Unfortunately there is no way to privatize your data and stay out of the system. Even if you ditch your cellphone. Although that will be the bulk of you data
@@rticle15 You mean “completely” privatize. I’m not worried about that- otherwise I wouldn’t be responding to you through a Google account lol
Thank you for your insight.
I subscribed months ago because I knew this would eventually be covered. Well done Mr. Flusche. You are the hero we need, but not the one we deserve.
That is utterly terrifying! The only thing that we can do to avoid being swept up in this kind of behavior by courts and cops, is stop carrying cell phones. But that is reason for suspicion too. We are all utterly at the mercy of bad policing and insurance fraudsters.
Two words: Flip phone.
@C. Lord They usually have less features to spy on you with, hell if you get a really basic one with a basic plan, it might not have internet or cell data at all. Just calling and texting which.. yeah that can still possibly be used against you, but it's less to pin on you.
@@TheRealDrJoey Flip phones nowadays run Android
@@coldbrew6104 I don't even know what that means, but my phone is simply a phone. No internet connection.
UNLESS I GO TO MY MOTHERS HOUSE MY PHONE GROUNDED AT HOME
Solid advice.
Thanks for being part of helping make people aware.
The more that follow it, the less & less effective a tool-of-terror it will be for those that seek to exploit it!
The true devil in the details is knowing when they choose to use it and when they don't...
Glad you are branching out to even more Freedom and privacy eroding situations like this. Love your clips.
yes & yes...
I used to use my phone as a bike computer forever. One day I forgot my phone at home and was riding in the middle of the night when I stopped for a break and noticed a single person laying down in a peculiar spot like they were sleeping. Odd, but I'm not gonna disturb someone. Next morning I see news reports of a body found in the same spot dressed exactly as the guy I passed "sleeping". I bought a bike computer that week and now ride with my phone off and listen to music downloaded on a burner phone. It hasn't been solved to this day and I still think of how lucky I was not to have my phone as that would have made me the sole suspect in the case.
Hmm, you sound very suspect.
@@noneya609 nah bums sleep on parks all the time dude. i see plenty of them along the bike paths here in ottawa. one section of it down near vanier they literally have tents and makeshift sheds in the bush. i wouldnt think anything of someone seemingly sleeping on the ground if i stopped for a rest at night.
FYI, phones still do tower pings even while "off". It's impossible to truly power off a modern phone since you can't remove the battery.
@@WardenWolf try a lead case.
@@cateatingchezburger4267 actually they hvae faraday bags on amazon for cheap
When you give incompetent people too much power
Andrew, that clip of you destroying a phone was hilarious! Great information, not many realize just how much their privacy is invaded with modern devices. Thank You!
Yeah the Office Space kickback was pretty funny.
I was more impressed by the clever use of poison ivy as a backdrop. 🙀 It’s a Toxicodendron fence!
Yeah many are clearly unaware either they don't care cuz some of these people it wouldn't matter if they turned off all of this stuff they post it anyway pictures of where they are who they're with and how long they're away from their home so you know these people that have been posting what they do all day long how they do it where they're doing it who they're doing it with they aren't allowed to scream about privacy rights being infringed upon because they're actually putting their privacy out on the internet for all to see you can't scream privacy infringement if you're actually putting your information out there willingly and stupidly I might add now that I know I have all of my s*** turned off
This video was very informative and frightening. I am definitely going to see what I can do to make sure I don't get caught in some random electronic dragnet. There are too many innocent American citizens and cuffed, beaten, incarcerated, and tortured in our modern judicial system.
You give advice I think is useful and important, but I liked this specifically for that phone smashing skit 😂 that’s good shit 😂
Awesome video! Love more videos like this on avoiding invasive phone tracking.
Great content as usual, thank you for your time and effort.
Ring cameras are known to give footage to the police without a warrant or even notification to the owner. If you get a doorbell cam, get one that stires video locally, not on the cloud.
Great video! Quick comment about the faraday bags, using them can oftentimes drain your battery since your phone will go to max power to try and connect with a tower. I usually just do airplane mode or turn off location services.
Go check out Rob Braxma's channel if you want to know how well THAT works.
@@transtubular Thanks for the recommendation. As a software dev most of what he mentioned wasn't a surprise. I just try to limit my 3rd party exposure as much as I can without going full tinfoil hat.
It was interesting to get confirmation that it's impossible to hide your location information from Apple and Google since they make the phones. Makes sense. I've been trying to de-Google myself for awhile now but it is definitely a long and annoying process.
I looked at my Google Privacy Policy.... "When you use our services, you're trusting us with your information. We understand this is a big responsibility and we work hard to protect your information and put you in control.
...... cycle-babble....
Their slogan went from "Do no evil" to "Ok, we're evil."
Greater “Office Space “ reference.
Great advice as well. Keep up the good work
Thankyou for an extremely informative and useful video. You can never have enough information on how to protect yourself from the JUST US system!
Conspiracy Theorist: "The government is injecting trackers into your body!"
Meanwhile he carries his phone with him everywhere he goes, including the bathroom...
You're so small minded and naive
This is my favorite subject I have seen on this channel. In the future I would like to see more on this subject including PC privacy and how online activity can be used against people's freedom.
I think the bigger problem is the extremely low standard these cops need to get warrants like this.
How high a standard do you think they should need to get information that, because you agreed to give it to them, is the lawful property of a 3rd party that has no privacy rights at stake?
@@suedenim9208 over the ceiling
Big difference between a suspect being pinged, and the blatantly unconstitutional geo fence warrants.
It would be nice to see how many suspects were actually caught out of how many times they've gotten these warrants
When I was growing up, I was taught this kind of privacy violation only happened in the Soviet Union....
The sad thing is sometimes the precision on gps isn’t that accurate. I’ve had my gps say I’m in one area but I’m actually somewhere else. This is just ludicrous.
Sad but true, I last week had google take me 5min away from the actual location.
I live in Virginia, according to § 19.2-56, there are very specific requirements for the issuance of a CRIMINAL search warrant. It all stems from the sworn affidavit that a crime has been committed, will be committed or likely to be committed. To lie on an affidavit of probable cause is a serious crime and should be prosecuted by the victim of it. That affidavit must also accompany the warrant when presented to the suspect, unless it was audio recorded, then within 3 days thereafter to the circuit court. So many ways for law enforcement to screw it up. Be vigilant, and know how they must act, they are OUR public servants, hold every one of them accountable to THEIR rules (codes). Protect YOUR rights or you will end up a victim. Great video Andrew. (I usually don’t have nice things to say about attorneys, you are a rare exception, well done!)
"Why did it take the police 6 days of holding Molina in a cage and interrogating him to sort this out?"
I would hazard to guess it was because he didn't ask for a lawyer.
i would hazard to let you know; poor people cannot afford such legal representation..
Perhaps his lawyer should argue a violation of Ashcraft v state? He'll even public defenders should know of that statute
@@floridagirl9064 If you can't afford a lawyer one is provided to you free of charge from the state. Nice try though.
@@grantteaton1727 theyre called public defenders & they hardly passed the state bar.
To be fair, they need more to do than just drink coffee and eat donuts when they have to stand around outside a school for an entire hour.
Any Judge or Prosecutor that does this sort of violations of GUARANTEED Right's under the Constitution, should be written up to the States DISCIPLINARY COUNSE FOR VIOLATING THEIR ethics WHICH THEY WERE SWORN TO, WITH RIGHT HAND IN THE AIR...TO STRICTLY ADHERE TOO. DO IT!!!!
As a note, I have pretty intamite knowledge of the neighborhood you used in your example, off Mussleman Rd. The area has had many issues with cars being broken into and vandalized. The community center has been broken into several times. Individuals have reported several incidents of homes being broken into. Much of the issue is due to the neighborhood directly behind the Rappahanock Landing community... the one that quite recently had a shooting and has been associated with a number of illegal activities. Of couse what I say is hearsay, but comes from my knowledge of the area.
Explain jury nullification, please. How it's done, why it's not something ever talked about, what penalties if any, jurors can get for mentioning or doing it, and if any states has special laws/rules about it. Thanks!
yes please
Look up a UA-cam video called "the law you won't be told"
It's about that entirely and explains it in detail
I've done that every single time I got asked "blah blah blah, and apply the law *as I give it to you".* Blurted out "Uhh, I object!" (ha!), and explain that I didn't check my brain or conscience when I walked into the building, so I'll apply the law *as I see fit* and even mentioned the _Brailsford_ case, underscoring to every other potential juror in the room, that under _Brailsford_ jurors have no only the right and the power, but the *duty,* to put the law itself on trial as well as the facts of the case. Oh, I got shot daggers by the judge, but I didn't get picked or sanctioned. Hope some of the words "stuck" to the other jurors, though.
Courts have forbidden any mention of jury nullification, not because they're expressly disallowing it, but because we citizens "should already know it". That's about as idiotic as saying cops no longer need to read anyone his _Miranda_ warning, as they probably heard them a brazillion times on teevee and "should already know it".
Great video and LOVED the reference to Office Space!! Now I want to go get a speeding ticket just to meet you! 🤣
I’ll do you one better. I was a defendant in a Threat of Terrorism charge by UA-cam - essentially UA-cam and Google were claiming that I had made threats of terrorism against them. One of the key factors was that I mentioned that I’d be visiting their campus in order to “shoot” their employees (I had meant “film” and was using wordplay on purpose). I had indeed traveled hundreds of miles to the Bay Area, but for a family event, not lethal intent. After the trip, when all the investigators zeroed in on me and eventually arrested me and took my phone to be analyzed, the detectives tried to get as much geo-location data they could from my phone, including affidavits given to Google for any and all data they had on me. Google declined to help, and UA-cam declined to help give any more of my UA-cam data (including comments that would have exonerated me). So my whereabouts, which would have proven my innocence, were never discovered by the detectives, and at the preliminary hearing the detective told the judge that although the phone data from Apple showed that I never went to UA-cam Headquarters, it doesn’t mean that I didn’t go to their headquarters. Essentially he’s trying to argue that absence of evidence of my whereabouts was not absence of guilt. The newspapers had already written that I had gone to their headquarters, so it’s as if they wanted to play up that storyline as long as possible.
So you had a bit of an adventure... I guess you know now not to use words like "shoot" if you can't afford such an adventure in the future. I would also recommend just not using Facebook or social media at all! Go on Facebook + make a threat = instant trip to the slammer!
Great story, glad it worked out. But dam, the lessons here are profound
@@OurResistance no I think I’d be fine using the word shoot, so long as I’m intending to mean “film”. That’s what the detectives got wrong. They were acting based on the old criminal code, where the only thing that could prove your guilt/innocence is the opinion of a jury, whereas the current law (based on Elonis v US) is that the guilt is only based on the intent of the perpetrator. So if my intent was to mean “film” then there’s no charges that can apply to the situation. I learned many lessons beyond that but yes it was an adventure.
@@davidswanson5669 Actually, no. They cannot read your mind to determine your intentions, so they have to go by your spoken words. There are just certain things you don't say unless you want the cops knocking on your door, such as threats to "shoot" people.
@@OurResistance I think you and I are on the same page though. I didn't want them to read my mind, because that gives them (or anyone) the ability to misinterpret what I meant. I told them when they came that I didn't mind them coming. I think the problem with society is that people never ask the original speaker what they meant. Most people in real life or on social media just hear what they hear (or read) and then decide for themselves what the original speaker meant. That's the old law. The new law requires detectives to determine what the speaker's intent was. When they came to my house, they were acting under the old law and they told me "it doesn't matter what you meant, it only matters what a reasonable person would believe you meant". Regardless, I told them what I meant, and they acknowledged it and even included it in their report. So the cops knew what my intent was, but they thought it didn't count.
In my online comment about "shooting" I had clearly stated that I'd be able to shoot their employees "because the 1st amendment gave me the right to do so", so I was admittedly creating an ego trap for UA-cam. In order for them to try to censor me for making a threat, they'd have to implicitly admit that they 1. don't pay enough attention to the context of the comments that are made on their platform (if they misinterpret my comment then they surely make the same mistake across the platform, which is one of my biggest gripes with them), and 2. they don't know the difference between the 1st and 2nd amendment (I had said that 1A gives me the right to shoot their employees, and only a person who confuses 1A with 2A would think I was referring to shooting with a gun), and 3. that they don't understand the use of the word "shoot" means to "film" even though they are the worlds largest production company, who employs over 100 million content creators, who primarily shoot video (I went to college for filmmaking and believe me, anyone who has anything to do with creating film/video uses the word "shoot" daily).
My casual campaign since this incident is to help people understand that speech is a two-way responsibility, where the speaker and the listener each have a responsibility to each other, where the speaker should always try to be clear in their speech when trying to convey an important message, but a listener has a duty to verify the context or intent of the speaker if they feel like the message is incongruent with normal expectations. It's no different than what you'd learn in relationship counseling.
Hasn't this kind of thing already been overturned by cases that decided "an ip address is not proof of personal guilt"? Specifically in cases of "online piracy".
IIRC it's why they actually had to go under cover and seize the laptop of the guy who ran Silk Road.
"IIRC"? So, instead of you actually typing out "If I recall correctly" we all have to Google what the hell the meaning of "IIRC" is. Well, BTW, O/T, but IMHO that's taking this online abbreviation thing TDF. ("Too damn far" I made that one up myself.)
@@TheRealDrJoey "iirc" is very common dude, calm down.
@@xanious3759 Don't you mean, "ivcdcd?" FOAD.
@@TheRealDrJoey you're being a boomer lol
@@xanious3759 Thank you.
I love the Office Space reference, well done!!! Now, about those TPS reports lol!
"We have been issued a Geofence warrant by a judge to arrest everyone that was breathing within the United States". The warrant excludes those associated with the system, the social elite and those that can afford a team of Bulldog type lawyers. And those captured are required to justify and verify their existence or their right to breath will be immediately stripped away.
Yeah...where ya gonna get Millions of LEO and military to do that? China...Russia, pmcs? Still not even close to 21 million Armed Combat Veterans LOYAL to Constitutional Oath of Affirmation...another 140
Million Armed Citizens...good luck..gonna be a SHORT coup...
You’re kidding right? I mean it’s a great opener for a book you’re about to write…but I don’t know if you’re serious or not. Let me know if you’re a writer or I mean, I smell a bozo… A reality check here…?
May I point out that police could have retrieved much the same information from the service provider even if using dumb phone with no GPS. If it can receive calls, it's tracking you.
Prepaid phone makes it more difficult to associate phone activity with you, good point.
Yeah, and they do use it(that's generally how they track via a phone number) he never went over that in detail, But I assume telling people you shouldn't have a cellphone at all if possible does help as much since no one will follow it
You're 100% correct. Had it happen, seen it happen to others. No warrant required here.
Of course you have to pay cash for the phone and be wearing a disguise while you purchase it because they will track the date and time of the purchase of the TracFone and review the security footage from the store which it shows you purchasing said phone.
@@uarbor70 Very good point, thank you. Thankfully, disguise requirement has been greatly eased by now-ubiquitous face mask.
Or one can hire a stranger to buy one for you (which carries risks of its own.)
But even then, by tracking metadata (such as whom you are calling and how often) they still can figure out a lot about you.
Of course, for vast majority of people that's too much nuisance.. especially for those posting in public message boards and thus revealing themselves.
@@steveturners1258 the real life case I actually read about they actually did hire someone to purchase the phone they tracked that person down that person did not want to go to jail for murder if he immediately roll over on the guy. Always do everything and I mean fucking everything yourself
My family looked at me like I was crazy when I stated we live in a cyberpunk dystopia.
I guess I've been categorised as paranoid as I have switched off GPS and Google tracking since my first smartphone...
They can track someone using the network of antenna but it's less precise and I think Phone companies charge a fee for that. Plane mode or switch the phone off help with that but unless you do something very dodgy it's over the top as the purpose of the phone is to be able to call and be reached.
Another important point is to secure your phone with a PIN or a complicated schematic...so that LEO can't open using fingerprints or face recognition.
all you're doing is turning off your access to it. It 100% is still running in the background. Newer phones save the location even when you take a picture whether location services are on or not. Or another good example is find my phone programs that can still locate it even when the phone is "off"...
“Off” doesn’t necessarily mean off. Anyway, they can find you by your phone’s proximity to other phones in the area that do have location tracking on. Also, those other phones are potentially always listening and can identify your voice through voiceprint.
Edward Snowden said they can still track a phone even when off. He said the only sure way it to take out the battery and suggested a simple flip phone that you can take the battery out of. BTW Law enforcement can now get in your locked phone easy now and the FBI has Pegasus software to get into anything.
@@richwinds7179 I think the best approach is to leave your phone at home in a Faraday bag. Pretend it’s 1985 and you only have a landline. Check for vm and texts when you get home, just like we did with answering machines.
@@BillLaBrie if you leave the phone at home then why put it in and use a Faraday bag??
Have you considered a video about how to be good juror?
Ooohhh, that's a good idea! I need to re-watch Runaway Jury first.
@@Andrewflusche Please also re-watch Twelve Angry Men, and include a brief explanation of the fundamental difference between a civil and criminal jury. Thanks.
The Office Space reference where you took the hammer to the phone didn't go unnoticed hahaha subscribed just for that
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I've heard of stories about pedophile groups using other people's home WiFi to transmit child porn to others and law enforcement raiding unsuspecting people for child pornography crimes
your secure phone idea dont work at all. problem is metadata.
so a phone number is an easy way to track someone but not necessary at all. for example i could simply cross reference everyone you call or get calls from which would give me your real identity real quick. but basically anything , any type of data helps to pinpoint someone.
and never ever logon to your home network, or at work. never ever call your pizza parlor, or login into anything related tgo you.
hell google now tracks people without cookies. we can even track pcs just by their picture render time (a value reported by browsers to the server).
and even if you can avoid all data that would expose you, you still leave that data that you dont send (kinda like an inverted cross reference)
and with google working so clsoe with police, you could basically cross reference every person in a district and leave a list of names not beeing tgracked at a certain time.
do that for a few datapoints and it will leave a short list of people going"dark"
Sorry to nitpick- you misspoke on the values graphed around 2:40.
Love the privacy type videos, thank you.
Wow - this information is excellent. Thank you !
Maybe the names of the judges who are signing these warrants should be posted so that the people know who to vote against.
Awesome videos! Id love to see a video about vehicle tags and registration.
The moral to the story is if your doing unlawful things, leave your phone at home.
Google has announced three changes to how it will treat Location History data. First, going forward, this data will be stored, by default, on a user’s device, instead of with Google in the cloud. Second, it will be set by default to delete after three months; currently Google stores the data for at least 18 months. Finally, if users choose to back up their data to the cloud, Google will “automatically encrypt your backed-up data so no one can read it, including Google.”. This is a direct response to law enforcement abusing Geofence warrants.
Most excellent vid, one of your best yet. People are getting wild eyed (Adam Schiff) and acting goofy in public places over seemingly benign matters. What are the legal boundaries when confronted by such people such as someone following you around a store crying out "no mask, no mask" and how do you present yourself to the police when such incidents are escalated to their attention? Magic words that they will recognize that you are the rational party.
Leave your phone at home and you become invisible
Man I’ll never be able to sell my crack to local cops anymore without their boss watching my every move.