Location Tracking
The 老澳门开奖结果 works in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country.
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Automatic License Plate Readers
The 老澳门开奖结果 works in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country.
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Cell Phone Privacy
The 老澳门开奖结果 works in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country.
What's at Stake
Law enforcement is taking advantage of outdated privacy laws to track Americans like never before. New technologies can record your every movement, revealing detailed information about how you choose to live your life. Without the right protections in place, the government can gain access to this information鈥攁nd your private life鈥攚ith disturbing ease.
As long as it is turned on, your mobile phone registers its position with cell towers every few minutes, whether or not the phone is in use. Since聽mobile carriers are retaining location data聽on their customers, government officials鈥攐ften without a warrant from a judge鈥攃an obtain detailed personal information about you by accessing your location history from your cell phone company. In tandem with information from other location-tracking technologies (like automatic license plate readers), this information can tell the government an enormous deal about you, ranging from which friends you鈥檙e聽seeing to where you go to the doctor to how often you go to church.
Freedom from unreasonable government snooping has always been a foundation of liberty in America. Through coordinated open-government laws like the Freedom of Information Act, the 老澳门开奖结果 has uncovered the location-tracking policies and practices of hundreds of state and local police departments. We have also litigated in courts across the country to advocate for a warrant requirement for historical and real-time location information and lobbied in the U.S. Congress for the passage of the Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance (GPS) Act.
Law enforcement is taking advantage of outdated privacy laws to track Americans like never before. New technologies can record your every movement, revealing detailed information about how you choose to live your life. Without the right protections in place, the government can gain access to this information鈥攁nd your private life鈥攚ith disturbing ease.
As long as it is turned on, your mobile phone registers its position with cell towers every few minutes, whether or not the phone is in use. Since聽mobile carriers are retaining location data聽on their customers, government officials鈥攐ften without a warrant from a judge鈥攃an obtain detailed personal information about you by accessing your location history from your cell phone company. In tandem with information from other location-tracking technologies (like automatic license plate readers), this information can tell the government an enormous deal about you, ranging from which friends you鈥檙e聽seeing to where you go to the doctor to how often you go to church.
Freedom from unreasonable government snooping has always been a foundation of liberty in America. Through coordinated open-government laws like the Freedom of Information Act, the 老澳门开奖结果 has uncovered the location-tracking policies and practices of hundreds of state and local police departments. We have also litigated in courts across the country to advocate for a warrant requirement for historical and real-time location information and lobbied in the U.S. Congress for the passage of the Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance (GPS) Act.