DoJ still wants cell phone tracking
p2p news / p2pnet: Granting a Department of Justice (DOJ) request to track a cell phone user without first showing probable cause of a crime would threaten Americans’ Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable searches.
So say the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) and Federal Defenders of New York in a brief asking a New York City federal judge to reject a DoJ request.
"This latest briefing comes after a decision last week in Maryland denying a similar order, which combined with two recent denials published by federal courts in New York and Texas, represents an unprecedented judicial rebuke to the DOJ’s surveillance practices," says the EFF.
"The DOJ’s apparently routine practice of asking for and receiving cell-tracking orders without probable cause only recently came to light as a result of these newly published decisions; typically, such requests are made and granted in secret, without any public accounting.
The DOJ, despite claims that its cell phone tracking requests are routine, necessary, and perfectly legal, has so far chosen not to appeal any of the recent decisions, the EFF points out.
Also read:-
EFF – Government Still Pushing for Cell Phone Tracking Without Probable Cause, December 7, 2005
