U.S. government to fight for warrantless GPS tracking
By Don Reisinger | Cnet The Obama Administration is headed to court today to argue that warrantless GPS tracking is just fine. The administration will present its arguments before a federal appeals court today, despite the U.S. Supreme Court last year ruling that a warrant was needed to attach a GPS device to a suspected criminal’s vehicle. [...]
Read More →Satellite Wars: China unveils ‘cheaper’ answer to GPS
RT China’s rapidly-expanding rival to GPS, called BeiDou, has become available to customers across Asia-Pacific for the first time. It aims to claim a fifth of the satellite services market in the region in just three years. Previously, the satellite constellation was only used by the country’s military and government services. Now, it is being [...]
Read More →Phone Tracking – Big Business For Cell Companies (Audio)
NPR Earlier this week the American Civil Liberties Union revealed information it obtained from a FOIA request to local police departments across the country about how police track and tap cell phones, often without warrants. Also contained in the release is information that cell carriers make money by charging law enforcement for that information. Robert [...]
Read More →App Lets You Rat Out Your Neighbours From Your Smartphone
AustralianPopSci West Virginia has launched a smartphone app that’s one part clever crowdsourcing and community engagement and one part sinister report-on-your-neighbor Big Brotherism. The Suspicious Activity Reporting Application is exactly what it sounds like. See something that looks like a violation of the law, no matter how insignificant? Snap a pic, tag it with GPS, [...]
Read More →Can Feds track the GPS of every American?
Russia Today The Supreme Court today began talks over what legalities could exist to allow authorities to secretly track global positioning system devices on everyday Americans. Is it a haunting transformation into an Orwellian society? Pending their verdict, it very well could be “You could tomorrow decide that you put a GPS device on every [...]
Read More →GPS Inventor Joins EFF in Fight Against Warrantless GPS Tracking
EFF Coalition Urges Supreme Court to Block Government Abuse of Surveillance Technology. The principal inventor of the Global Positioning System (GPS) and other leading technologists have joined the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in urging the U.S Supreme Court to block the government from using GPS tracking without first getting a warrant, arguing that the massive [...]
Read More →FOIA Victory Will Shed More Light on Warrantless Tracking of Cell Phones
EFF The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday (pdf) that the government must turn over information from criminal prosecutions in which federal law enforcement agencies obtained cell-site location information without a warrant. The suit, filed as part of EFF’s FLAG Project and in conjunction with the ACLU, sought the release of the case numbers and case names in [...]
Read More →Scared Mexicans try under-the-skin tracking devices
Washington Post Of all the strange circumstances surrounding the violent abduction last year of Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, the Mexican power broker and former presidential candidate known here as “Boss Diego,” perhaps nothing was weirder than the mysterious tracking chip that the kidnappers allegedly cut from his body. Lurid Mexican media accounts reported that an [...]
Read More →Hartmann – Geeky Science – The Ultimate Spy tool
Russia Today The journal Science is reporting this week that a super thin electronic patch that sticks to the skin like a temporary tattoo could transform medical sensing, computer gaming and even spy operations. The micro-electronics technology – called an epidermal electronic system or EES – was developed by an international team of researchers from [...]
Read More →Senate Sneaks RFID Drivers License, Internet ID into Transportation Bill
By Adrian Wyllie 1787 Network TALLAHASSEE – The Florida Senate Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability on Wednesday approved an amendment to include “electronic authentication,” as well as “biometrics” to Florida Driver’s licenses. In addition, the amendment to SB 1150, which passed committee on a 12-0 vote, instructs the Department of Highway Safety and Motor [...]
Read More →Smartphones: The Tracking and Surveillance of Millions of Americans
by Tom Burghardt Global Research As Smartphone Scandal Grows, Tech Firms Run for Cover, Reap Windfall Profits Recent revelations that Apple’s iPhone and iPad, Google’s Android and Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 operating systems collect, store and transmit records of users’ physical locations to central databases–secretly, and without consent–have ignited a firestorm over Americans’ privacy rights [...]
Read More →TomTom admits to sending your routes and speed information to the police
CRAVE CNET It appears every gadget in your possession is tracking your location. First it was the iPhone, then Android phones and now it’s your bleedin’ sat-nav. TomTom, perhaps in a pre-emptive strike against its own user-tracking scandal, has admitted its sat-navs can track users and inform third parties about how fast they’re going. The [...]
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