{"id":23395,"date":"2016-08-17T16:57:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T21:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23395"},"modified":"2016-08-17T16:57:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T21:57:05","slug":"morning-consult-potential-fcc-probe-of-police-cellphone-trackers-could-serve-as-proxy-for-congressional-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23395","title":{"rendered":"Morning Consult: Potential FCC Probe of Police Cellphone Trackers Could Serve as Proxy for Congressional Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morning Consult: <a href=\"https:\/\/morningconsult.com\/2016\/08\/17\/potential-fcc-probe-police-cellphone-trackers-serve-proxy-congressional-battle\/\">Potential FCC Probe of Police Cellphone Trackers Could Serve as Proxy for Congressional Battle<\/a> by Amir Nasr:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A complaint filed with the Federal Communications Commission says the Baltimore Police Department violated the Communications Act by using cell-site simulators to locate and track individuals through cellphone location data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor far too long, the Baltimore City Police Department has made a frequent habit out of flouting federal spectrum law and disrupting availability of the cellular network to Black communities in Baltimore,\u201d Laura Moy, the complainants\u2019 counsel and a visiting assistant professor at Georgetown Law, said in a Tuesday statement. \u201cThe FCC should not sit idly by while police departments in Baltimore and other cities systematically undermine Americans\u2019 fundamental rights by intercepting cell phone traffic on licensed spectrum without a license.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morning Consult: Potential FCC Probe of Police Cellphone Trackers Could Serve as Proxy for Congressional Battle by Amir Nasr:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cs-sim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23396,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23395\/revisions\/23396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}