{"id":16723,"date":"2015-04-12T09:14:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T14:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16723"},"modified":"2015-04-12T09:14:13","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T14:14:13","slug":"grits-for-breakfast-att-historical-cell-phone-location-data-provides-detailed-and-intimate-portrayal-of-the-targeted-persons-daily-habits-and-work-and-leisure-routines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16723","title":{"rendered":"Grits for Breakfast: AT&T: Historical cell-phone location data provides ‘detailed and intimate portrayal of the targeted person’s daily habits and work and leisure routines’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grits for Breakfast: AT&T: Historical cell-phone location data provides ‘detailed and intimate portrayal of the targeted person’s daily habits and work and leisure routines’<\/a>: <\/p>\n

At a hearing Wednesday evening on HB 2263 by Rep. Bryan Hughes requiring warrants for the government to access personal location data from cell phone companies, cops from Dallas and Houston testified that historical information should be subject to a lower standard than a Fourth Amendment probable cause warrant because it’s less accurate than real-time tracking. The argument is that you can only tell which cell tower someone connected to, further narrowed by which third of the tower’s range the signal came through. They depicted the scope of a cell tower’s expanse as up to ten miles, and in rural areas I suppose that could be true. But these were Dallas and Houston cops and, as a factual matter, coming from those urban jurisdictions that’s some pretty weak tea. Here’s how AT&T described the accuracy of historical cell phone location data in an amicus brief on the issue in November 2014…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grits for Breakfast: AT&T: Historical cell-phone location data provides ‘detailed and intimate portrayal of the targeted person’s daily habits and work and leisure routines’: At a hearing Wednesday evening on HB 2263 by Rep. Bryan Hughes requiring warrants for the … Continue reading →<\/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":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-site-location-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16723","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=16723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16724,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16723\/revisions\/16724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}