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Police Are Using Phone Tracking as a Routine Tool
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Apr 02, 2012 03:55pm |
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| Category | General |
| Author | ERIC LICHTBLAU |
| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Saturday, March 31, 2012 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | 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.
While cell tracking by local police departments has received some limited public attention in the last few years, the A.C.L.U. documents show that the practice is in much wider use — with far looser safeguards — than officials have previously acknowledged. |
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