{"id":9921,"date":"2013-12-06T10:46:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T10:46:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T10:46:19","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9921","title":{"rendered":"Wired: NSA Wrongly Says Warrantless Mobile-Phone Location Tracking Is Legal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2013\/12\/nsa-cell-site-data\/\">NSA Wrongly Says Warrantless Mobile-Phone Location Tracking Is Legal<\/a> by David Kravets: <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>National Security Agency snoops are harvesting as many as 5 billion records daily to track mobile phones as they ping nearby cell towers across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>That alarming scoop by The Washington Post via documents provided by NSA leaker Edward Snowden included wishful thinking from an unnamed government \u201cintelligence lawyer\u201d interviewed in the story. This official, according to the Post, said that the data \u201care not covered by the Fourth Amendment,\u201d meaning a probable-cause warrant isn\u2019t required to get it.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, however, the case law on cell-site locational tracking \u2014 while generally favorable to the government \u2014 is far from clear, with federal courts and appellate courts offering mixed rulings on whether warrants are needed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9921\">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-9921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9921","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=9921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}