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More today on LEO access to cellphone GPS<\/strong><\/p>\n

More today on TPMMuckraker on How Easy Is It For The Police To Get GPS Data From Your Phone?<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Police can in some cases track cell phone location by merely telling a court that the information is relevant to an investigation, a legal expert tells TPM — a fact that may partly explain how law enforcement racked up 8 million requests for GPS data from a single wireless carrier in a year. <\/p>\n

An increasingly popular and easy-to-access surveillance tool for police, GPS data is not currently protected by the Fourth Amendment, and the standards for gaining access to the information are murky and highly variable. That’s partly because one of the statutes that bears on the issue was passed in the mid-1980s, before many of the technologies involved were invented. And Congress hasn’t done much to update the law since.<\/p>\n

The issue at stake is the demise of so-called “locational privacy.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The TPMMuckraker article links to NYTimes: A Casualty of the Technology Revolution: \u2018Locational Privacy\u2019<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A little-appreciated downside of the technology revolution is that, mainly without thinking about it, we have given up \u201clocational privacy.\u201d Even in low-tech days, our movements were not entirely private. The desk attendant at my gym might have recalled seeing me, or my colleagues might have remembered when I arrived. Now the information is collected automatically and often stored indefinitely.<\/p>\n

Privacy advocates are rightly concerned. Corporations and the government can keep track of what political meetings people attend, what bars and clubs they go to, whose homes they visit. It is the fact that people\u2019s locations are being recorded \u201cpervasively, silently, and cheaply that we\u2019re worried about,\u201d the Electronic Frontier Foundation said in a recent report. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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