Man suspected of burglary based on Google’s geolocation

Zachary McCoy, a 30-year-old man from Florida, became a suspect in a burglary crime after Google tracked his bike riding history which said he passed a burglarized home three times on the day crime happened.
McCoy learnt that authorities were attempting to use a ‘geofence warrant’ to get his personal information after Google sent him a notice mentioning a case number.
Geofence warrants are used by authorities to collect the Google geolocation of every single person who was in a designated area at the time of a crime.
McCoy searched for it on the Gainesville Police Department’s website and found a one-page investigation report on the burglary of an elderly woman’s home 10 months earlier, nbcnews.com reported on Saturday.
“I didn’t know what it was about, but I knew the police wanted to get something from me, I was afraid I was going to get charged with something, I don’t know what,” McCoy said in a recent interview.