Re: Getting consumers' consent to sell cellphone tracking dat a

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Right you are.

And if anyone else thinks that this isn't a problem, they haven't
been paying attention.

Thursday, October 27, 2005
U.S. Cell Phone Tracking Shot Down (Again)

[snip]

Federal law enforcement attempts to use cell phones as tracking devices were rebuked twice this month by lower court 
judges, who say the government cannot get real time tracking information on citizens without showing probable cause.

This summer, Department of Justice officials separately asked judges from Texas and Long Island, New York to sign off 
on orders to cellular phone service providers compelling them to turn over phone records and location information -- in 
real time -- on two different individuals.

Both judges rejected the location tracking portion of the request in harshly worded opinions, concluding investigators 
cannot turn cell phones into tracking devices by simply telling a judge the information is likely "relevant" to an 
investigation.

[snip]

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69390,00.html

- ferg

-- Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

Some of us plain don't think it's the government's business, or anybody else's.

How would you feel if tonight, while you were watching TV, somebody came tp the
door and flashed a badge, and insisted you account for *all* of your last 2
week's movement, without any probable cause or explanation?

How is it any different if they gather the information without your permission?


--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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