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Bills would require police to get warrants for mobile phone location

A group of U.S. lawmakers has introduced legislation that would require law enforcement agencies to get court-ordered search warrants before obtaining a suspect's mobile phone location or GPS data, instead of using prosecution-issued subpoenas.

By Grant Gross | 21 March, 2013 18:23

Tags: Americans for Tax Reform, telecommunication, Jason Chaffetz, Competitive Enterprise Institute, mobile, legislation, privacy, Electronic Frontier Foundation, American Civil Liberties Union, 4g, Ed Black, 3g, Ron Wyden, security, U.S. House of Representatives, legal, government, U.S. Supreme Court, Computer and Communications Industry Association, U.S. Senate, Mark Kirk
US lawmakers push to limit gov't mobile tracking

The U.S. Congress needs to pass legislation that would require law enforcement agencies to get permission from a judge before tracking suspects through their mobile phones, instead of the now-common practice of tracking a mobile subscriber's location after a prosecutor-issued subpoena, two U.S. lawmakers said Tuesday.

By Grant Gross | 19 October, 2011 04:11

Tags: U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Americans for Tax Reform, telecommunication, Valerie Caproni, Jim Dempsey, Competitive Enterprise Institute, mobile, legislation, privacy, Electronic Frontier Foundation, American Civil Liberties Union, 4g, 3g, Ron Wyden, security, Fred Smith Jr., Center for Democracy and Technology, government, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Senate, Mark Kirk
Senators push for changes in cybercrime law

The main U.S. law targeting cybercrime may need to be changed because it has allowed law enforcement agencies to target people who simply violate websites' terms of service or their employers' computer use policies, two senators said Wednesday.

By Grant Gross | 08 September, 2011 04:05

Tags: Americans for Tax Reform, Al Franken, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, legislation, Barack Obama, Electronic Frontier Foundation, harvard university, James Baker, Lori Drew, American Civil Liberties Union, security, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, legal, Center for Democracy and Technology, Aaron Swartz, government, Patrick Leahy, cybercrime, U.S. Department of Justice, regulation, MySpace.com

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