WaPo: How hard should it be for cops to track your location? A new lawsuit revives the debate.

WaPo: How hard should it be for cops to track your location? A new lawsuit revives the debate. by Brian Fung:

Privacy advocates sued a Florida police department Tuesday over a controversial surveillance technology that, they say, improperly lets authorities track the movements of thousands of cellphone users without a warrant.

The suit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and obtained by The Washington Post, revives a perennial debate about the judicial standards law enforcement officials must meet to gather geolocation information — and once they receive a court’s permission, how much of that data they can collect and store. It also implicates decades-old privacy legislation that was written in the age of the telephone but has been liberally interpreted to allow much greater surveillance in the Internet era, according to the law’s critics.