Source: therawstory
This is not change that privacy advocates can believe in.
A US appeals court began weighing Friday whether police should be allowed to track citizens through their cellphones without first obtaining a warrant.
The case “could prove to be one of the most important privacy rights battles of the modern era,” The Legal Intelligencer noted.
Adopting a Bush-era argument, Obama administration attorneys asked the court to allow telecoms companies to hand over their subscribers’ location information, even without a probable cause warrant.
But privacy and human rights groups, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) say the process is invasive and violates individuals’ privacy and Fourth Amendment rights, which safeguard against illegal search and seizure.
