Until now, how law enforcement agents use cell phone tracking has been largely shrouded in secrecy.
What little was known suggested that law enforcement agents frequently tracked cell phones without obtaining a warrant based on probable cause.
"All cell phones register their location with cell phone networks several times a minute, and this function cannot be turned off while the phone is getting a wireless signal. The threat to personal privacy presented by this technology is breathtaking: To know a person's location over time is to know a great deal about who a person is and what he or she values. As the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. explained:
"A person who knows all of another's travels can deduce whether he is a weekly church goer, a heavy drinker, a regular at the gym, an unfaithful husband, an outpatient receiving medical treatment, an associate of particular individuals or political groups — and not just one such fact about a person, but all such facts."
The government should have to obtain a warrant based upon probable cause before tracking cell phones. That is what is necessary to protect Americans' privacy, and it is also what is required under the Constitution. In United States v. Jones, a majority of the Supreme Court recently concluded that the government conducts a search under the Fourth Amendment when it attaches a GPS device to a car and tracks its movements. The conclusion should be no different when the government tracks people through their cell phones, and in both cases a warrant and probable cause should be required."http://www.aclu.org/protecting-civil-liberties-digital-age/cell-phone-location-tracking-public-records-request
Thanks to the ACLU and it's open records request they are finding out about the policies, procedures and practices for tracking us via cell phones...
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