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EFF Asks Appeals Court to Rehear Cell Site Tracking Case
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 08 2012 @ 07:00 PM EDT
Location privacy generally, and cell site tracking specifically, have been two hot issues this year, particularly since the Supreme Court's January ruling in United States v. Jones that installing a GPS device on a car without a search warrant violated the Fourth Amendment.

After Jones, we were optimistic that both courts and legislatures would begin to take location privacy seriously and demand warrants before granting law enforcement access to a map of our every movements over an extended period of time. But it hasn't turned out that way. In August, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issueda very bad decision (PDF), ruling law enforcement did not need a search warrant to track a cell phone in real time.

So this week EFF and a number of other civil liberties organizations joined together in an amicus brief to ask the Sixth Circuit to reconsider its decision.

Hanni Fakhoury, EFF

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Bypassing the 4th: ~335 statutes give federal agencies the power of the administrative subpoena
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 08 2012 @ 07:33 PM EDT
Meet the administrative subpoena (.pdf): With a federal official’s signature, banks, hospitals, bookstores, telecommunications companies and even utilities and internet service providers — virtually all businesses — are required to hand over sensitive data on individuals or corporations, as long as a government agent declares the information is relevant to an investigation.

Via a wide range of laws, Congress has authorized the government to bypass the Fourth Amendment — the constitutional guard against unreasonable searches and seizures that requires a probable-cause warrant signed by a judge.

In fact, there are roughly 335 federal statutes on the books (.pdf) passed by Congress giving dozens upon dozens of federal agencies the power of the administrative subpoena, according to interviews and government reports. (.pdf)

David Kravets, Wired

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Off Topic threads
Authored by: PR3J on Saturday, September 08 2012 @ 11:24 PM EDT
Did anyone saw this one?

GooPhone Clone and its patent on the "possible iPhone 5 design" on China?

Another "patent war" weird move.

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