I'm assuming the police is primarily using GPS to prove guilt, but are there any recorded cases of someone using GPS to "prove" their innocence, as an alibi?
That's a good question. There are plenty of people who have proved the GPS is wrong.
For instance, I am on 24/7 GPS/cell tower surveillance because I am poor. The police regularly (3 times this week) come to my home, pull me out onto the street, cuff me up and arrest me because they believe (from the GPS data) that I am not in my home. Then they will have me stand on the street corner in handcuffs until the GPS matches what they see with their eyes.
Those of us who are under constant surveillance for our poverty have taken to installing cameras that record onto the cloud so that we can later prove in court we were where we said we were (not where the GPS thinks we are):
I don't know. I did a subpoena to Verizon once for a guy accused of murder who I knew was innocent. There's a long story about how the guy didn't want to admit to police he wasn't at the scene of the crime because it would have to out him as having a gay lover, which he was worried about. He'd been in jail for 6 years at this point. I said we should subpoena his cell tower records to prove he was away from the scene, and we did, but Verizon came back and said they deleted them after 5 years.
tl;dr: they do delete them, but Verizon said it has a 5 year retention
As part of a GDPR data access request, my mobile ISP denied having access to data such as which cell towers I am or have been connected to. Wasn't sure what to make of that. They are a virtual provider but, like, surely if the police comes knocking they suddenly find a way to that data... or does the police not knock at theirs but at the network operator's? Is the virtual operator then not the data controller, should I send access requests to suppliers? But then the data controller is not required to give a list of suppliers, just a list of 'categories' of third parties they share my data with... so that doesn't really add up.
I know a thing or two about GDPR but it's still complex enough that I don't know what my rights / their obligations are in this case.
The best I could figure, my virtual operator was lying to me about not having my location data 24/7 recorded, but I'd be interested if anyone can tell me more.
For instance, I am on 24/7 GPS/cell tower surveillance because I am poor. The police regularly (3 times this week) come to my home, pull me out onto the street, cuff me up and arrest me because they believe (from the GPS data) that I am not in my home. Then they will have me stand on the street corner in handcuffs until the GPS matches what they see with their eyes.
Those of us who are under constant surveillance for our poverty have taken to installing cameras that record onto the cloud so that we can later prove in court we were where we said we were (not where the GPS thinks we are):
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