asur
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It appears Obama is looking to track
the phone conversations of any and all US citizens without their
consent.
Feb 11, 2010
The Obama administration has proposed that warrantless tracking is permitted because Americans enjoy no "reasonable expectation of privacy" in their--or at least their cell phones'--whereabouts. U.S. Department of Justice lawyers say that "a customer's Fourth Amendment rights are not violated when the phone company reveals to the government its own records" that show where a mobile device placed and received calls.
Those claims have alarmed the ACLU and other civil liberties groups, which have opposed the Justice Department's request and plan to tell the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia that Americans' privacy deserves more protection and judicial oversight than what the administration has proposed.
When Obama ran as president he promised to not support wireless wiretaps.
Now maybe he might as this is getting pretty close to just that.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9845595-7.html
There is a case to be made, that the origin and destination of a cell phone call is a private matter and should be protected
as such.
Would John Edwards have approved if some government hack, had tracked his phone calls to
Rielle Hunter?
the phone conversations of any and all US citizens without their
consent.
Feb 11, 2010
The Obama administration has proposed that warrantless tracking is permitted because Americans enjoy no "reasonable expectation of privacy" in their--or at least their cell phones'--whereabouts. U.S. Department of Justice lawyers say that "a customer's Fourth Amendment rights are not violated when the phone company reveals to the government its own records" that show where a mobile device placed and received calls.
Those claims have alarmed the ACLU and other civil liberties groups, which have opposed the Justice Department's request and plan to tell the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia that Americans' privacy deserves more protection and judicial oversight than what the administration has proposed.
When Obama ran as president he promised to not support wireless wiretaps.
Now maybe he might as this is getting pretty close to just that.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9845595-7.html
There is a case to be made, that the origin and destination of a cell phone call is a private matter and should be protected
as such.
Would John Edwards have approved if some government hack, had tracked his phone calls to
Rielle Hunter?
