Difficile non pensare alle scene iniziali di "Brazil", con l'irruzione stile militare in casa di Archibald Tuttle. Alberto On 06/12/22 12:12, 380° wrote:
Buongiorno,
"To warrant or not to warrant, that is the Question"
Quello che mi fa impressione non è tanto che abbiano sbagliato usando informazioni inaccurate di "Find My App" per le ricerche ma che - in puro stile action movie - abbiano fatto irruzione con la SWAT (ma che davero?!?) dopo che **un giudice** ha autorizzato la perquisizione (con la SWAT, ma che davero?!?) sulla **sola** base della localizzazione basata su Find My App, senza manco andare a guardare prima chi ci viveva in quella casa.
Sono tutti fuori di testa in maniera preoccupante.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/05/us/colorado-lawsuit-find-my-iphone.html
«Detective Sued Over SWAT Raid Based on Wrong Location on the Find My App»
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A detective relied on flawed information provided by the Find My app for a warrant that led the police to raid the home of a 77-year-old Denver woman, a lawsuit says.
The SWAT team and Denver police officers had arrived at Ms. Johnson’s home in an armored vehicle with a German shepherd. Officers, some in tactical gear with rifles, used a battering ram on the rear garage door of Ms. Johnson’s home and also caused damage inside the house, court records say.
Officers searched for stolen goods while Ms. Johnson, 77, waited in a police vehicle. After several hours, the police left. Their search was fruitless.
In a lawsuit filed last week, Ms. Johnson, a retired U.S. Postal Service worker who lives alone, says that a detective, Gary Staab, sought the warrant based on inaccurate information from the Find My app. The mobile application, which helps track down missing or lost Apple products, such as iPhones, iPads and MacBooks, led him to believe that stolen goods were inside her home, the suit says.
Mark Silverstein, a lawyer for Ms. Johnson and the legal director of the A.C.L.U. of Colorado, said on Monday that Detective Staab, the sole defendant named in the suit, should not have applied for the warrant.
[...] Detective Staab, who is still with the Police Department, did not respond to a request for comment on Monday. It was unclear whether he had a lawyer.
He was assigned on Jan. 4 to investigate a truck that had been reported stolen the day before, according to court documents. The filings state that the owner told the police that inside the truck were four semiautomatic handguns, a tactical military-style rifle, a revolver, two drones, $4,000 in cash and an iPhone 11.
The detective interviewed the truck’s owner, Jeremy McDaniel, who told him that he had used the Find My app the day before to search for the iPhone and that it had placed the lost phone at an address, according to court documents.
[...] The lawsuit included a screenshot of the Find My app linking Mr. McDaniel’s phone to one home, but the radius included parts of other homes and of two streets spread over sections of four blocks.
“The screenshot offered no basis to believe McDaniel’s iPhone was likely to be inside Ms. Johnson’s house, rather than on any of several neighbors’ properties or discarded on a nearby street by a passing driver,” the lawsuit said.
About three hours after interviewing Mr. McDaniel on Jan. 4, Detective Staab obtained a search warrant, and Denver police and SWAT officers soon descended on Ms. Johnson’s lawn.
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