Police Are Using Phone Tracking as a Routine Tool

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ERIC LICHTBLAU
NY Times
April 1, 2012

WASHINGTON — Law enforcement tracking of cellphones, once the province mainly of federal agents, has become a powerful and widely used surveillance tool for local police officials, with hundreds of departments, large and small, often using it aggressively with little or no court oversight, documents show.

The practice has become big business for cellphone companies, too, with a handful of carriers marketing a catalog of “surveillance fees” to police departments to determine a suspect’s location, trace phone calls and texts or provide other services. Some departments log dozens of traces a month for both emergencies and routine investigations.

With cellphones ubiquitous, the police call phone tracing a valuable weapon in emergencies like child abductions and suicide calls and investigations in drug cases and murders. One police training manual describes cellphones as “the virtual biographer of our daily activities,” providing a hunting ground for learning contacts and travels.

But civil liberties advocates say the wider use of cell tracking raises legal and constitutional questions, particularly when the police act without judicial orders. While many departments require warrants to use phone tracking in nonemergencies, others claim broad discretion to get the records on their own, according to 5,500 pages of internal records obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union from 205 police departments nationwide.

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13 Responses to “Police Are Using Phone Tracking as a Routine Tool”

  1. Just wait till they start using the cameras and microphones on your smart phone as a spying device. We all have bugged our own homes and cars. Anytime the feds want, they can secretly activate your phone. Just when you thought you were jerking off to porn in the privacy of your own home, someone is watching you through your own phone.

    Not saying this is happening yet. But it is going to.

    lancelot link Reply:
    April 1st, 2012 at 8:13 am

    check out some of the new tv’s that have facial and voice recognition and of course internet ready. when you think of the possibilitys it gets pretty spooky

    A.P.E.

    illuminated ascension Reply:
    April 1st, 2012 at 8:26 am

    Its been done.

  2. Is Nothing sacred?

  3. In Ontario the OPP have been useing this Tool for 10 years now!
    I remember visiting a Friend 3 hours away in the country and not useing
    my debit card or telling not one person nothing not even stopping anywere
    for a single thing in the night even, well early in the morning I went for a walk
    on the old country road never traveled, well with my back to a car and not walking
    in the middle ether, that car drove slowly up to me with the window down and said “Hi Erik”
    It came from local Police a cop I never seen before EVER! ..WITH A SINESTER SMILE I MITE ADD.

    THE ONLY I MEAN ONLY WAY HE KNEW I WAS THERE, AND I THOUGHT THIS OVER FOR YEARS
    WAS THAT “DAM CELL PHONE”

    JUST FOR THAT ALONG I NEVER CARRY ONE OR IF I DO ITS OFF TILL I USE IT AND
    MESSAGE CENTER IS A GREAT TOOL

    AND MY GPS IS OFF TILL I NEED IT TOO! GARMIN KEEPS FILES ON EVERY WERE YOU HAVE EVER BEEN, BELIEVE ME I CALLED THEM ONE TIME AND THE WOMAN WAS FLABBERGASSEDED
    WITH ALL THE PLACES I HAD GONE I HAD TAKIN THE DAM THING TO EVERY BUSH I LOGGED
    BUT NO MORE ITS ***OFF TOO***

    THIS IS NO JOKE

  4. THE LOCAL POLICE IN ONTARIO NOW ARE THUGS AND BULLIES OR HYW JANITORS

  5. The pigs will answer for their treason during the coming turmoil. Now is the time for the smart ones to resign and leave the steroid thugs behind.

  6. I have a friend who gladly receives my telephone messages when I have any reason to be believe my rights to privacy arrew being violated. I loudly and abusively express obscene fantasies about what I would like to do if Janet Napolitano showed upo at my ffront door under a full moon, stark naked and high on drugs. (I would seek help for her immediately. I’m keeping a jaqr of meat juice and a hungry, sadistic dog around for the occasion. Figure out the rest)

    MARK OF THE BEAST Reply:
    April 1st, 2012 at 8:34 am

    To destroy this game the strategy is very simple. Everyone must send raNdom messages to random cell numbers. CHAOS OUT OR NWO. Like most strategies, running the plan in reverse often destroys the opponents strategy.

    THANK YOU SATAN.

  7. Did anyone ever figure out why welfare addicts get free cell phones???

    No worries you all paid for them.

  8. Simple Answer:

    Do not participate. While we’ve been programmed to believe this technology (not just cell phones) is good for us,,, in reality it is our most deadly adversary and should be used with EXTREME diligence.

    The only way to win the game is not to play.

  9. Who is tracking #1 criminal Eric Holder??

  10. mark of like “the beast – expand the concept and phone, e-mail, fax constant messages like “Incontinent al-qaeda assassins with nuclear bombs and anthrax will crap all over the White House and blow it up next Tuesday”. With that new NSA vampire facility in Utah picking up billions of such transmissions hourly, it might have some effect upon their capacity to track us by cellphone and figure out why we pulled over for 73 seconds alongside a lonely road after drinking a mug of coffee or tea (it was to stroke our Janet Napolitano roide-along doll).

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