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[privacy] Cellphone Tracking Powers on Request
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:24:45 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. [snip] More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/22/AR200711220 1444.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHR4tqq1pz9mNUZTMRAudoAKDqaS3mevdhQguaNYgzXQPssS1WngCg9i0t XBXacxzfq6rR3tNV2ScRfM0= =RRh/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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- [privacy] Cellphone Tracking Powers on Request Paul Ferguson (Nov 23)
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- [privacy] Cellphone Tracking Powers on Request Richard M. Smith (Nov 24)
- Re: [privacy] Cellphone Tracking Powers on Request Juha-Matti Laurio (Nov 24)