Tagged and tracked by your own cell phone
Disloyal Opposition
by JD Tuccille
02/16/10
Last Friday, federal attorneys told the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals that government officials should be able to track the location of Americans by following their cell phone transmissions — without having to get a warrant. While the FBI and state and local officials have already obtained logs from mobile phone companies that reveal the locations of customers’ telephones, the practice has never formally been endorsed by the courts. The latest federal arguments — and rebuttals by civil liberties organizations — give the courts the opportunity to either support or repudiate federal claims that Americans have no ‘reasonable expectation of privacy’ so long as they carry cell phones...
http://tinyurl.com/ych7lpz
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warrantless
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=civil+liberties
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=JD+Tuccille
by JD Tuccille
02/16/10
Last Friday, federal attorneys told the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals that government officials should be able to track the location of Americans by following their cell phone transmissions — without having to get a warrant. While the FBI and state and local officials have already obtained logs from mobile phone companies that reveal the locations of customers’ telephones, the practice has never formally been endorsed by the courts. The latest federal arguments — and rebuttals by civil liberties organizations — give the courts the opportunity to either support or repudiate federal claims that Americans have no ‘reasonable expectation of privacy’ so long as they carry cell phones...
http://tinyurl.com/ych7lpz
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warrantless
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=civil+liberties
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=JD+Tuccille
rudkla - 17. Feb, 10:46
