{"id":11878,"date":"2014-06-05T02:50:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T07:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11878"},"modified":"2014-06-05T02:11:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T07:11:26","slug":"wapo-how-hard-should-it-be-for-cops-to-track-your-location-a-new-lawsuit-revives-the-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11878","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: How hard should it be for cops to track your location? A new lawsuit revives the debate."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-switch\/wp\/2014\/06\/03\/how-hard-should-it-be-for-cops-to-track-your-location-a-new-lawsuit-revives-the-debate\/\">How hard should it be for cops to track your location? A new lawsuit revives the debate.<\/a> by Brian Fung:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u2014 and once they receive a court&#8217;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&#8217;s critics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11878\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gps-tracking-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11879,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11878\/revisions\/11879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}