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Cellphone Tracking

Thirteen Ways Government Tracks Us

Bill Quigley | Posted 06.13.2012 | Politics
Read More: Civil Liberties, Department of Defense, War on Terror, Homeland Security, Surveillance, Cellphone Tracking, Government Surveillance, Counterterrorism, National Security Agency, GPS Tracking, Electronic Surveillance, Tracking, FBI Surveillance, Politics News
Bill Quigley

The advanced technology of the war on terrorism, combined with deferential courts and legislators, have endangered both the right to privacy and the right of people to be free from government snooping and tracking.

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Police Surveillance Tactics Raise Privacy Concerns

nytimes.com | Posted 04.01.2012 | Technology
Read More: Local Police, Police Phones, Police, Police Surveillance, Cellphone Tracking, Phone Tracking, Police Phone Tracking, Cops, Technology News

WASHINGTON -- Law enforcement tracking of cellphones, once the province mainly of federal agents, has become a powerful and widely used surveillance t...

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Gerry Smith

Security Researcher Says Phone-Tracking Misunderstood

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 12.05.2011 | Technology
Read More: Video, Carrier Iq, Smartphone Tracking, Carrier Iq Dan Rosenberg, Carrier Iq Verizon, Cybersecurity, Dan Rosenberg, Dan Rosenberg Carrier Iq, Cellphone Tracking, Carrier Iq Android, Phone Tracking, Carrier Iq Iphone, Technology News

Last week, the controversy over Carrier IQ, a software installed on millions of smartphones that monitors details about users' activities, reached a f...

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Who Knows Where I Am? What Do They Do With the Information?

Susan Landau | Posted 12.03.2011 | Technology
Read More: Cellphone Tracking, Online Privacy, Wiretapping, Technology News
Susan Landau

A FOIA request by the ACLUhas revealed a Department of Justice memo showing Verizon keeps tracking data for "a rolling year," T-Mobile officially for 4-6 months, but "really a year or more," AT&T/Cingular since July 2008, Sprint for 18-24 months. That's not all.

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License, Registration and iPhone Please

David Coleman | Posted 07.29.2011 | Technology
Read More: Search, Iphone, Cloud, Cell Phones, Android, Michigan Illinois State Police, Cellphone Tracking, Privacy, Cnet, Google, California, Technology News
David Coleman

The path of least resistance seems to be the best response to a police request to examine a car, at least until the officer discovers a text message from a drug-using associate, or contact information about someone who is under suspicion.

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