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| On Nov 25, 7:57 am, Pegleg <Peg...@usnavyret.mil> wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:10:51 -0800 (PST), Joe <useful_in...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
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> Get a life!
At the moment you are in Southside Mall in Houston, hung over, sweaty,
and need a bath.
[quote]
Most people don't realize it, but they're carrying a tracking device
in their pocket," said Kevin Bankston of the privacy advocacy group
Electronic Frontier Foundation. "Cellphones can reveal very precise
information about your location, and yet legal protections are very
much up in the air."
In a stinging opinion this month, a federal judge in Texas denied a
request by a Drug Enforcement Administration agent for data that would
identify a drug trafficker's phone location by using the carrier's
E911 tracking capability. E911 tracking systems read signals sent to
satellites from a phone's Global Positioning System (GPS) chip or
triangulated radio signals sent from phones to cell towers. Magistrate
Judge Brian L. Owsley, of the Corpus Christi division of the Southern
District of Texas, said the agent's affidavit failed to focus on
"specifics necessary to establish probable cause, such as relevant
dates, names and places." [close quote]
from:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...2201444_pf.html
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