{"id":9913,"date":"2013-12-05T00:42:48","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T00:42:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T00:42:23","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9913","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: The NSA says it \u2018obviously\u2019 can track locations without a warrant. That\u2019s not so obvious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-switch\/wp\/2013\/12\/04\/the-nsa-says-it-obviously-can-track-locations-without-a-warrant-thats-not-so-obvious\/\">NSA says it \u2018obviously\u2019 can track locations without a warrant. That\u2019s not so obvious<\/a> by Andrea Peterson: <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In conversations with The Washington Post over Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani&#8217;s recent story on cellphone location tracking, an intelligence agency lawyer told Gellman, &#8220;obviously there is no Fourth Amendment expectation in communications metadata.\u201d But some experts say it&#8217;s far from obvious that the 1979 Supreme Court case on which the administration bases this view gives the government unfettered power to scoop up Americans&#8217; cellphone location data.<\/p>\n<p>That Supreme Court case, called Smith v. Maryland, started with a 1976 robbery of a woman named Patricia McDonough in Baltimore. Soon afterward, she began receiving threatening calls from a man who identified himself as the robber. In one of those calls, the man on the line asked her to come outside, where she saw a 1975 Monte Carlo she had earlier described to the police drive by slowly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9913\">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-9913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}