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Police Are Using Phone Tracking as a Routine Tool

Date: March 31, 2012

Author: Eric Lichtblau

QUOTE: Law enforcement tracking of cellphones, once the province mainly of federal agents, has become a powerful and widely used surveillance tool for local police officials, with hundreds of departments, large and small, often using it aggressively with little or no court oversight, documents show. The practice has become big business for cellphone companies, too...

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Key People:

• President George W. Bush
• Catherine Crump Esq.

Key Organizations:

• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
• National Security Agency (NSA)
• New York Times Company
• US Supreme Court (SCOTUS)

Subject & Geographic Categories:

• Abstract Principles
  • Control / Access / Permission
    • Principles / Guidelines / Rules / Policy

• Computers & Information Technology
  • Email / Spam / Phone / Wireless / Messaging

• Law & Justice
  • Civil Rights / Equal Protection
    • Fair Trials
      • Evidence / Search & Seizures
    • Privacy: Other
      • Anonymity/Surveillance/Identity Theft/Confidentiality
  • Criminal Law
    • Criminal Justice System
      • Police / Policing

• North America
  • United States of America/USA

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