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Feds push for tracking cell phones
CNET News ^ | February 1, 2010 | Declan McCullagh

Posted on 02/11/2010 8:58:30 AM PST by Cheap_Hessian

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To: stephenjohnbanker
You said it stephenjohnbanker!! Let’s not only audit Zippy’s phone, but let’s ask Congress and the Supremes to lead by example. It’s time that they were subject to their own laws first, and not above any laws!!!!
41 posted on 02/11/2010 9:35:19 AM PST by parthian shot (When do we stop asking and start telling?)
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To: CholeraJoe
"The defense attempted to use the cell phone’s whereabouts to show the defendant had left the city before the time of the murder and it was not allowed."

That's interesting. I would like to look around for it. Do you have an idea about a time-frame for the case? Was it recent - within this decade, or something from the '90s.

42 posted on 02/11/2010 9:36:11 AM PST by OldDeckHand
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To: theBuckwheat
Oops, that should have read...

"...effectively waiving any expectation of privacy they might have enjoyed."

43 posted on 02/11/2010 9:37:33 AM PST by OldDeckHand
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To: Cheap_Hessian

Obama should have no “reasonable expectation of privacy” when it comes to his birth certificate, school records, etc, since he does claim to be eligible for the highest office in the land.


44 posted on 02/11/2010 9:38:22 AM PST by anonsquared (TEA PARTY 2010 - THROW 'EM ALL IN THE HARBOR!)
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To: TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
FBI agents obtained logs from mobile phone companies corresponding to what their cellular towers had recorded at the time of a dozen different bank robberies in the Dallas area. The voluminous records showed that two phones had made calls around the time of all 12 heists, and that those phones belonged to men named Tony Hewitt and Corey Duffey.

They had to look at everyone's phone records to connect those dots. It's a world of difference to listening in on someone stateside in an international call with a member of Al Qaeda.

The press had journalists who WERE communicating directly with AQ. This is the reason for the big stink. Has to be. Time Magazine was one such publication with these contacts.

45 posted on 02/11/2010 9:45:18 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("like it or not, we have to have a financial system that is healthy and functioning" Obama 2/4/2010)
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To: Tublecane

As Rush pointed out, you can’t take the battery out of an iphone.


46 posted on 02/11/2010 9:47:44 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("like it or not, we have to have a financial system that is healthy and functioning" Obama 2/4/2010)
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To: TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
"Feds push for tracking cell phones"

More undeniable proof that Orwell wasn't a novelist, he was an oracle who wrote in novel format!:

47 posted on 02/11/2010 9:51:42 AM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the next one...)
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To: a fool in paradise

“As Rush pointed out, you can’t take the battery out of an iphone.”

Then criminals won’t use i-phones.


48 posted on 02/11/2010 9:55:25 AM PST by Tublecane
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To: TYVets
'Big Brother wants to watch the "serfs" even more than it does now.'

EGGSactly Batman!

('cept the proper term is "proles"...)

49 posted on 02/11/2010 9:56:59 AM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the next one...)
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To: Tublecane; a fool in paradise; j_guru
Or just take the battery out.

An almost unknown fact- some phones will still ping the last SIM code for hours after the battery and SIM is gone. Impossible to tell exactly which ones without dissecting them or scanning for a ping.

It's "for the children", of course.

50 posted on 02/11/2010 9:59:45 AM PST by varyouga (2 natural disasters, zerO action. Obama doesn't care about white people!)
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To: Cheap_Hessian; All
You let me audit your long form birth certificate, and I'll let you audit my phone records, Kenyan.

Until then:

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51 posted on 02/11/2010 10:01:37 AM PST by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: TheClintons-STILLAnti-American

Right, since everyone has a cell phone they’ll just club people, take their cellphones and then pitch them. Great. And all the Lefty org’s that bashed W. over privacy concerns will A) Scream B) Engage in constructive challenging dialogue with O C) Sit Down and STFU.

No need to answer.


52 posted on 02/11/2010 10:05:25 AM PST by Rippin
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To: Cheap_Hessian

Bush couldn’t get away with this.


53 posted on 02/11/2010 10:11:52 AM PST by Dewey Revoltnow (Worst. Community. Organizer. Ever!)
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To: Rippin
Right, since everyone has a cell phone they’ll just club people, take their cellphones and then pitch them. Great. And all the Lefty org’s that bashed W. over privacy concerns will A) Scream B) Engage in constructive challenging dialogue with O C) Sit Down and STFU.

Yep. Your common criminal on the street is much smarter than the criminals in the highest positions of government.
54 posted on 02/11/2010 10:15:04 AM PST by Dewey Revoltnow (Worst. Community. Organizer. Ever!)
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To: Cheap_Hessian; Black Agnes; CodeToad

Old news.


55 posted on 02/11/2010 10:25:40 AM PST by Travis McGee (----www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com----)
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To: OldDeckHand

I believe it was this decade.


56 posted on 02/11/2010 10:28:04 AM PST by CholeraJoe (Any man over 35 with washboard abds is either gay or a narcissist.)
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To: Tublecane

Or the internet.


57 posted on 02/11/2010 10:29:03 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: Cheap_Hessian
Feds push for tracking cell phones

How is that 'Hope and Change' working out for you?

Security Voices Against President Bush's Warrantless NSA Domestic Wiretap Program
58 posted on 02/11/2010 10:42:18 AM PST by Cheerio (Barack Hussein 0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Cheap_Hessian

Those crazy Amish again.


59 posted on 02/11/2010 10:45:07 AM PST by wastedyears (The curtain has fallen, behold the messiah.)
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To: ilovesarah2012
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized"

> Clearly the author thought that some invasions of privacy are unreasonable and some are reasonable.

I interpret the Warrants section to imply that even when a search is reasonable, a warrant is needed with specifics.

I suspect the courts interpret the Warrants section the opposite way: When a search is reasonable no warrant is necessary. And only when a search is unreasonable is a warrant necessary. But regardless of the interpretation, the crucial point is a definition of reasonable. If an male 6' 6' with dred locks and "black" features robs a bank it is not reasonable to put out an APB for a Black man. But it might be reasonable to put out an APB with the full description.

If a website is heavy with child porn, it might be reasoable to check out all visitors to that website. But it would not be reasonable to check all visitors to google or yahoo to find the child porn violator among that group that is overwhelmingly not into child porn.

Is there a way to define unreasonable that is not based on anecdotal examples?

60 posted on 02/11/2010 10:48:11 AM PST by spintreebob
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