Interestingly, Google has recently started to shift their entire infrastructure for location tracking off their servers and onto users’ devices. Motivated in part by geofence warrants (and, in this commenter’s opinion, perhaps by anti-abortion laws in the US too).

It’s actually rather frustrating for me as I used to export and keep the GPS logs, for geotagging photos from a camera, which will need to be done per day now. Nonetheless, a smart move as they simply won’t hold this information anymore - even for those who opt-in to the feature.

While I'm in favor of restricting warrants in this way, it is important to realize that it will result in some crimes being unpunished, and potentially even deaths.

There is a cost to living in a free society that needs to be recognized, even though it is still a cost worth paying.