Google will soon store Maps users’ location history locally on their devices instead of in the cloud, a big change that will make it more difficult for law enforcement to access the data. Controversial “geofence warrants” allow law enforcement to gather tech companies’ data on mobile phones that have passed through a certain area during a specific time period. The FBI has used the warrant to collect information about a Black Lives Matters protest in Seattle as part of an investigation into attempted arson, for instance. With privacy concerns and the potential for geofence warrants to turn anyone at the scene of an alleged crime a potential suspect, Google has faced pressure for years to change the way it stores users’ location history. With this update to Maps, which is expected to roll out over the next year, the tech giant seems to be finally doing something about it. “Google made the move to explicitly bring an end to such dragnet location searches,” Forbes reports, “who was not authorised to speak publicly.” The change applies to the Timeline feature in Maps, which remembers locations where users have been previously.