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Sensorvault is an internal Google database that contains records of users' historical geo-location data. [1]: 1 [2]It has been used by law enforcement to execute a geo-fence warrant and to search for all devices within the vicinity of a crime, (within a geo-fenced area) [1]: 1 [3]: 1 [2] and after looking at those devices' movements and narrowing those devices down to potential suspects or ...
Keyword search warrants seek to compel search engine companies to release data on users who have searched specific phrases—for example, an address that was later the location of a crime. [2] Keyword warrants are comparatively rare but have been used to request data from companies including Google, Microsoft , and Yahoo since at least 2017.
Geofence warrants were first used in 2016. [4] Google reported that it had received 982 such warrants in 2018, 8,396 in 2019, and 11,554 in 2020. [3] A 2021 transparency report showed that 25% of data requests from law enforcement to Google were geo-fence data requests. [5]
Two geofences defined in a GPS application. A geofence is a virtual "perimeter" or "fence" around a given geographic feature. [1] A geofence can be dynamically generated (as in a radius around a point location) or match a predefined set of boundaries (such as school zones or neighborhood boundaries).
Address geocoding, or simply geocoding, is the process of taking a text-based description of a location, such as an address or the name of a place, and returning geographic coordinates, frequently latitude/longitude pair, to identify a location on the Earth's surface. [1]
Geopositioning yields a set of geographic coordinates (such as latitude and longitude) in a given map datum. Geographic positions may also be expressed indirectly, as a distance in linear referencing or as a bearing and range from a known landmark. In turn, positions can determine a meaningful location, such as a street address.
Concerns have been raised that Phos-Chek harms fish and aquatic life; and that it causes long-term effects on soils, insects, and microbiology. [13] A group based in Oregon called Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics sued the U.S. Forest Service, claiming the service violated the Clean Water Act by spraying Phos-Chek without assessing the product's harmful effects on waterways.
MapInfo Corporation, initially incorporated as Navigational Technologies Incorporated, was a company that developed location intelligence software. [1] [2] It was headquartered in North Greenbush, New York. Its products included a desktop mapping application, various map and demographic data products, and some web-based applications.