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1. Comment - US Justice Dept. sued for info on cellular tracking practices

   (Jul 7, 2008 - 3:45 AM)

   I still think that it's a specific action to access such information. I honestly don't know how acquiring such data works at all, but it seems to me like it would be an individual, isolated request for information to obtain anything through GPS/tower triangulation.

2. Comment - US Justice Dept. sued for info on cellular tracking practices

   (Jul 6, 2008 - 8:05 AM)

   "And I don't know that anyone has an explicit expectation of privacy regarding loation of calls - after all, the big fuss over VOIP was that 911 calls and other emergency calls be able to be tracked for location - thus if anything, there is an expectation that calls Can be tracked - even if they aren't."
   
   The way it works is you can set it to enabled, where it works with compatible applications (Chaperone, loopt), or set it to "911 only".
   
   This has nothing to do with calls in general. This is about law enforcement querying your phone for your physical location. Such actions (in reference to law enforcement) are a very big deal and should not be treated lightly, at all, whatsoever.
   
   If law enforcement wants to know where you are, they need to prove that they have the right to obtain that information by acquiring a search warrant.
   
   Obtaining your location through your phone is not like looking your address up in the phone book, it's manipulating your private property from a remote location. To me, it's similar to accessing the contents of your computer's hard drive in terms of accessing your private property.
   
   The ACLU and the EFF serve a purpose that no one else is fit to fulfill: to protect your rights and freedom. I don't know much about the ACLU, but the EFF also protects corporations from injustice as well.
   
   If you don't have deep pockets, you can't afford to go to court against a large corporation or the federal government. That's where the ACLU and EFF come in (they don't just help individuals though, or help only in matters against large entities).
   
   If your rights are being violated, they have the financial and legal resources to let you have your day in court and help to establish legal precedents that continue to protect all of us into the future.
   
   If it wasn't for groups like the ACLU and EFF, the US would significantly lack much of the checks and balances that keep this country a free country.