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Surveillance Shocker: Sprint Received 8 MILLION Law Enf. Requests for GPS Location Data in Past Year
Electronic Frontier Foundation ^
| December 1, 2009
| Kevin Bankston
Posted on 12/01/2009 3:24:41 PM PST by Heartlander2
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To: Myrddin
Why do we voluntarily make it easier for them, is my question...we just ...comply and help further it...
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posted on
12/02/2009 3:36:00 PM PST
by
NFHale
(The Second Amendment - By any means necessary.)
To: Heartlander2
I just hope people remember that in some cases LEOs being able to track your last “ping”, etc... might just save your life, or the life of a loved one.
Remember how they found the body of that girl who’d been abducted and murdered? Through her phone as it pinged the towers.
This isn’t to say that some of these requests should require a warrant, just that if you’re dealing with a case of abduction and the like the time used getting the warrant to get the last known location info. might be the difference between finding someone alive, or finding them dead, or never finding them at all...
Just food for thought...
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posted on
12/02/2009 4:04:17 PM PST
by
LibertyRocks
( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ ANTI-OBAMA STUFF : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
To: Heartlander2
I just hope people remember that in some cases LEOs being able to track your last “ping”, etc... might just save your life, or the life of a loved one.
Remember how they found the body of that girl who’d been abducted and murdered? Through her phone as it pinged the towers.
This isn’t to say that some of these requests should require a warrant, just that if you’re dealing with a case of abduction and the like the time used getting the warrant to get the last known location info. might be the difference between finding someone alive, or finding them dead, or never finding them at all...
Just food for thought...
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posted on
12/02/2009 4:04:33 PM PST
by
LibertyRocks
( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ ANTI-OBAMA STUFF : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
To: LibertyRocks
Sorry for the double-post... I honestly have NO clue how that could’ve happened...
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posted on
12/02/2009 4:05:50 PM PST
by
LibertyRocks
( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ ANTI-OBAMA STUFF : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
To: Heartlander2
If Richard Nixon had a Blackberry, he would never have resigned. How is the US govt handling the vast number of communications of the current POS...I mean POTUS, when by law his communications were considered public domain, at least able to be subpoenaed at some point if required?
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posted on
12/02/2009 4:06:47 PM PST
by
runninglips
(Lame-stream media, ignoring the stories that are too important to cover)
To: Heartlander2
It’s been a survellance state for years. Most people haven’t noticed yet.
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posted on
12/02/2009 6:17:35 PM PST
by
zeugma
(Proofread a page a day: http://www.pgdp.net/)
To: grobdriver
GPS disabled on the phone. On-Star service deactivated in the car.Do you really think that either of those things matter when FedGov wants the information?
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posted on
12/02/2009 6:18:49 PM PST
by
zeugma
(Proofread a page a day: http://www.pgdp.net/)
To: NFHale
I purchased the Droid because I have the means to write software for it. In addition to being my phone, it will likely become a display device for a project I'm bidding. The GPS, 802.11b/g, display and audio capability are all elements I need to accomplish the task. I've done similar work in the past with the iPAQ (HP5555) and Samsung isch-730 as platforms. Neither of them had GPS, but were otherwise suitable as WiFi enabled displays. They were both programmed with MS Compact .Net 2.0. The Droid is obviously a Java task. I'm happy either way.
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posted on
12/02/2009 6:26:05 PM PST
by
Myrddin
To: Sacajaweau
GPS data requests is not surveillance. How ya' figger?
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posted on
12/02/2009 7:23:12 PM PST
by
elkfersupper
(Member of the Original Defiant Class)
To: Tucker39
She also has a whiskey and cigarette voice; by which I mean rough, gravelly and unpleasant. To each his own. Some of us love that.
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posted on
12/02/2009 7:26:46 PM PST
by
elkfersupper
(Member of the Original Defiant Class)
To: Melas
If law enforcement is listening to my phone, then there are some really bored cops looking forward to retirement.They're looking at Facebook in college towns and inviting underage students downtown for minor-in-possession citations based on the posted photos.
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posted on
12/02/2009 8:01:02 PM PST
by
elkfersupper
(Member of the Original Defiant Class)
To: bamahead
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posted on
12/05/2009 9:52:23 AM PST
by
traviskicks
(http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
To: bamahead
nm, saw we already pinged lol
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posted on
12/05/2009 9:52:48 AM PST
by
traviskicks
(http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
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