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This is exactly the slippery slope everyone warned about with digital surveillance. Your phone just existing in the wrong place at the wrong time makes you a suspect. Wild how fast we've normalized this.
It's worse than just 'existing'. Geofence warrants often cast a ridiculously wide net, asking for ALL device IDs in an area, then trying to narrow it down. The burden of proof shifts heavily onto the innocent just to *explain* why they were there.
I always wondered about this after that one case where a guy was jogging by a burglary or something and got caught up. Like, what are we supposed to do, turn off our phones every time we leave the house?
If you're not doing anything wrong, what's the big deal? Honest people have nothing to fear from a little investigation.