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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