Digital Privacy: Cell-Phone Privacy Rights
Posted by: Jennifer Yoon on Mar 11, 2010
The hearing was an appeal from a 2008 ruling by a Pittsburgh magistrate judge who denied a request by federal law enforcement agents for the cell-phone records showing the time when and location from which calls were made by a person under investigation. (In that case, Philadelphia FBI agent William Shute testified that he obtained records 150 times in recent years to track the location of federal fugitives.) At the appellate hearing, both the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union argues that the practice raises serious privacy issues, and Third Circuit Judge Dolores Sloviter seemed to agree.
Sources:
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/84290122.html
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/12/fbi-knows-thanks-cell-phone/?test=latestnews
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gjCPfFdmocBeGyr_-lqmLC_3CfcAD9DQS4Q84

