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DamianTV
11-21-2011, 05:18 PM
http://mashable.com/2011/11/18/aclu-warrant-cell-phone/


Worried about the police tracking your whereabouts through your mobile records? They can’t — it’s unconstitutional. U.S. law enforcement agents do not have the right to access cellphone location records, a federal court ruled Wednesday.

U.S. District Judge Lynn N. Hughes upheld a Texas district court’s decision that the constitution’s Fourth Amendment sets probable cause as the minimum for obtaining private records. A government request for asked for 60 days of travel information for certain mobile accounts probed the case.

In his ruling, Hughes wrote, “two months’ worth of hourly tracking data will inevitably reveal a rich slice of the user’s life, activities, and associations.”


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Anti Federalist
11-21-2011, 05:36 PM
Some small shreds of justice still to be found.

Too little, too late, I'm afraid.

DamianTV
11-21-2011, 05:39 PM
The only time it is truly too late is when a person has given up ALL hope.

nobody's_hero
11-21-2011, 06:04 PM
Good, but:

How many times has this court decision been flip-flopped? Next year they will be able to bypass warrants. The year after, they will need warrants again.

ghengis86
11-21-2011, 06:18 PM
They can say two words and circumvent all laws and court decision: national security.

Goodbye constitutional protections, hello Gitmo

pcosmar
11-21-2011, 06:31 PM
They can say two words and circumvent all laws and court decision: national security.

Goodbye constitutional protections, hello Gitmo

Followed by two more,, Domestic terrorist.

Being unconstitutional does not stop them from doing anything else.
It used to slow them down,,