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Ranking Your Cell Phone Company on Privacy

By Jeralyn, Section Civil Liberties
Posted on Mon Oct 03, 2011 at 08:14:28 PM EST
Tags: cell site locator information (all tags)
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The ACLU has obtained a chart from the Department of Justice showing what types of records the major cell phone carriers keep and for how long. The chart is here. It was prepared for law enforcement to assist them in obtaining cell phone records.

The ACLU filed 381 requests in 32 states with local law enforcement agencies in an attempt to determine when, why and how they are using cell phone location data to track Americans.

Here's a map where you can click on your state to learn more. Here's why it's a problem. [More..]

There's a bill pending in Congress that needs support.

Congress is considering the Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act, a bill supported by the ACLU that would require police to get a warrant to obtain personal location information. The bill would protect both historical and real-time location data, and would also require customers' consent for telecommunications companies to collect location data.

The bills are H.R. 2168 and S.1212. They would prohibit, among other things, "acquiring geolocation information of a person for protective activities or law enforcement or intelligence purposes except pursuant to a warrant issued under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure or the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act."

Wired has more.

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    Neither of my two states (none / 0) (#1)
    by sj on Mon Oct 03, 2011 at 10:16:46 PM EST
    have a request filed, apparently.  This is good news anyway.

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