{"id":9992,"date":"2013-12-15T14:23:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T14:23:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T14:23:19","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9992","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Editorial: A high-tech dragnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/protecting-americans-phone-data-in-a-high-tech-world\/2013\/12\/14\/8070a136-61e6-11e3-bf45-61f69f54fc5f_story.html\">Editorial: A high-tech dragnet<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>AS LONG as your mobile phone is on, your wireless carrier keeps track of your location. It&#8217;s relatively easy, technologically and legally, for law enforcement to obtain and sort through phone companies&#8217; so-called geolocation records. State and local police &#8211; not just federal officials &#8211; are collecting these records in investigations that have nothing to do with national security, the domain in which debates on surveillance have occurred lately. A Gannett investigation published last week examined 125 law-enforcement agencies in 33&#8201;states and found that a quarter have conducted a &#8216;tower dump,&#8217; in which they demand that phone companies surrender all the records of phone activity collected from a particular cell tower or two over a given, usually brief, period of time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9992\">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-9992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9992","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=9992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}