{"id":6917,"date":"2012-03-31T19:15:19","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T19:15:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T19:15:19","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6917","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes: &#8220;Police Are Using Phone Tracking as a Routine Tool&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/01\/us\/police-tracking-of-cellphones-raises-privacy-fears.html?_r=1\">Police Are Using Phone Tracking as a Routine Tool<\/a> by Eric Licthblau:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Law enforcement tracking of cellphones, once the province mainly of federal agents, has grown into a powerful and widely used surveillance tool for local police officials as well, with hundreds of departments, large and small, often using it aggressively with little or no court oversight, new documents show. <\/p>\n<p>The practice has become big business for cellphone companies, too, with a handful of carriers marketing a catalog of \u201csurveillance fees\u201d to police departments to determine a suspect\u2019s location, trace phone calls and texts or provide other services. Some departments log dozens of traces a month for both emergencies and routine investigations.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6917\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6917","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}