New Limits to FBI Tracking of Cell Phone Users

EvilTwinSkippy writes "According to the Washington Post (free registration), Two Federal Courts have seperately ruled that the FBI may not track the location of cell phone users without proof that a crime has been committed, or is in progress. The cases involve the FBI seeking court orders to track suspects in real-time using the mobile phone network as part of an ongoing investigation."

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Things that...

[42Penguins]

make you go HMM.

FBI: We need to tap his phone to prove he committed a crime.
Court: You need to prove he committed a crime to tap his phone.

Re:Crime

[MyLongNickName]

Agreed. Yet Slashbots just drool at the chance to knock something they don't like. You think we have problems now? (we do) Can you imagine if the slashdot moderators gained control of the federal government? We'd have an absolute police state in six weeks.

Re:OR.. they are a terrorist?

[Anonymous Coward]

No, that's just what all the Slashbots think because they sit in their mom's basements all day
and jerk off to conspiracy theories.

Re:Crime

[Anonymous Coward]

Can you imagine if the slashdot moderators gained control of the federal government? We'd have an absolute police state in six weeks.

A police state where the harshest possible punishment is being modded down to -1 doesn't sound all that ominous...

Re:Crime

[MyLongNickName]

Power Corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Everyone from Microsoft would be banished to Alcatraz, and Linux would be the state enforced religion with Linus as His prophet (non-profit?).