Chilling
I dunno, is the ability to make a phone call while walking down the street worth this?
Cellphone Tracking Powers on Request
Secret Warrants Granted Without Probable Cause
Federal officials are routinely asking courts to order cellphone companies to furnish real-time tracking data so they can pinpoint the whereabouts of drug traffickers, fugitives and other criminal suspects, according to judges and industry lawyers. In some cases, judges have granted the requests without requiring the government to demonstrate that there is probable cause to believe that a crime is taking place or that the inquiry will yield evidence of a crime. Privacy advocates fear such a practice may expose average Americans to a new level of government scrutiny of their daily lives.
I don’t think its any of the governments business where I am at any time, do you?
November 28th, 2007 at 7:41 am
“drug traffickers, fugitives and other criminal suspects” and of course terrorists.
phooey.
given the number of people in this nation who are “drug traffickers, fugitives and other criminal suspects” versus those of us who aren’t, guess how many of us versus them are going to be “caught” in their increasingly idiotic war on drugs, and fugitives, and terror, and essentially our most basic civil liberties.
the government’s gonna get really bored tracking my where abouts.
November 29th, 2007 at 5:20 am
This offends me on a couple of levels and privacy is not the personal issue in my case. I choose not to carry a cell, so If I call, they know exactly where I am now anyway. I just don’t want em spending my tax dollars this way. This is conservative?