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Mar 7Liked by Joe Fried CPA

I guess all the criminal cases that used cell phone data to pinpoint a perpetrator will have to be overturned in Fulton County, GA.

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I drive a semi. I use Google maps constantly. It shows my truck's position precisely. No error at all. If I am in a huge facility with hundreds of dock doors, it shows me precisely where I am. Not 5 feet off, precisely. This is helpful to me getting out of large facilities that often lack signage.

Unfortunately Trump had no inclination whatsoever to arrest any rioters, any more so than he had any inclination to help the J6 victims, whom he lured to D.C. then abandoned.

I won't be voting this time around. If God wanted us to vote he would send us some candidates.

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If I was a lawyer in Fulton County and they used cell phone data, I would read back her quote. I don't know why I concern myself with this, because nothing will be done.

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Not to undercut your overall point, which I think is correct, but don't confuse cell phone pings with GPS. They are different things. GPS can be incredibly accurate, as you point out. Cell phone pings are a lot less accurate. The cell towers aren't trying to identify exactly where a person is located. They're trying to optimize signal strength and decrease transmission power so that communication can occur and the cell companies can have as many people using phones in a given area (RF capacity) as possible. That's opposed to GPS, where the whole point of the technology is to locate things with fairly high accuracy. The GPS data is going to be far more accurate than the cell phone ping data. The cell phone data might only show Wade near Willis's condo, the 9 sq miles thing, but that's still roughly a 3 mile x 3 mile area. But that's still close. What was he doing in her neighborhood at 1 am?

So, even if you can't place Wade inside Willis's condo via cell phone ping data, you could subpoena Google or Apple and get the GPS data. The cell phone ping data should provide probable cause to go after the GPS data. And we all know that the GPS data will show Wade inside Willis's condo.

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Excellent analysis; appreciate the links to GPS.gov site too. I've not seen anyone else address this w/o doing so to discredit conservative and election-cleansing type reporting.

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