Aclu.org

Cell Phone Location Tracking Public Records Request

Of all of the recent technological developments that have expanded the surveillance capabilities of law enforcement agencies at the expense of individual privacy, perhaps the most powerful is cell ...

Supreme Court debates police use of cell phone location data

The Supreme Court is debating whether police violated Fourth Amendment rights by using a geofence warrant to obtain Google location data from all cell phones near a 2019 Chesterfield bank robbery, ...

Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people’s phone locations, researchers say

The Citizen Lab found two separate surveillance vendors abusing the backbone of cellular networks to spy on several victims ...
Aclu.org

New Records Detail DHS Purchase and Use of Vast Quantities of Cell Phone Location Data

Today, the ACLU published thousands of pages of previously unreleased records about how Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and other parts of the Department of ...
KEYT

Congressional members demand investigation into purchase of American’s cellular location data

WASHINGTON D.C. (KEYT) – On Tuesday, California's Senators joined 68 other members of Congress calling for an investigation into the warrantless purchase of cell phone location data by the Department ...
Gizmodo

Feds Used Online Advertising Data to Track the Public’s Phone Locations

An internal U.S. Customs and Border Protection document reveals that the agency bought online advertising data that could allow it to track mobile phone locations ...