[privacy] Cellphone Tracking Powers on Request

[Paul Ferguson]

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Via The Washington Post.

[snip]

Federal officials are routinely asking courts to order cellphone companies
to furnish real-time tracking data so they can pinpoint the whereabouts of
drug traffickers, fugitives and other criminal suspects, according to
judges and industry lawyers.

In some cases, judges have granted the requests without requiring the
government to demonstrate that there is probable cause to believe that a
crime is taking place or that the inquiry will yield evidence of a crime.
Privacy advocates fear such a practice may expose average Americans to a
new level of government scrutiny of their daily lives.

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More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/22/AR200711220
1444.html

- - ferg

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