bobbyw24
08-24-2011, 08:23 AM
A federal judge in Brooklyn ruled Monday that the federal government must establish probable cause and secure a warrant before obtaining records about a cell phone user's location, saying it violated the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches, according to the New York Law Journal.
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"While the government's monitoring of our thoughts may be the archetypical Orwellian intrusion, the government's surveillance of our movements of a considerable time period through new technologies, such as the collection of cell-site-location records, without the protections of the Fourth Amendment, puts our country far closer to Oceania than our Constitution permits," Eastern District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis wrote:
http://ia600309.us.archive.org/33/items/gov.uscourts.nyed.312774/gov.uscourts.nyed.312774.6.0.pdf
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/08/23/judge-rules-warrant-required-to-obtain-cell-phone-location-data/?utm_source=Raw+Story+Daily+Update&utm_campaign=11c1386f2c-8_24_118_24_2011&utm_medium=email
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-v7CIScZY4PE/TZk77UBR-8I/AAAAAAAATdg/A_i4iaQTuEM/s400/first-cell-phone.jpg
"While the government's monitoring of our thoughts may be the archetypical Orwellian intrusion, the government's surveillance of our movements of a considerable time period through new technologies, such as the collection of cell-site-location records, without the protections of the Fourth Amendment, puts our country far closer to Oceania than our Constitution permits," Eastern District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis wrote:
http://ia600309.us.archive.org/33/items/gov.uscourts.nyed.312774/gov.uscourts.nyed.312774.6.0.pdf
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/08/23/judge-rules-warrant-required-to-obtain-cell-phone-location-data/?utm_source=Raw+Story+Daily+Update&utm_campaign=11c1386f2c-8_24_118_24_2011&utm_medium=email