…because you don’t have a reasonable expectation of privacy.
Even though police are tapping into the locations of mobile phones thousands of times a year, the legal ground rules remain unclear, and federal privacy laws written a generation ago are ambiguous at best. On Friday, the first federal appeals court to consider the topic will hear oral arguments (PDF) in a case that could establish new standards for locating wireless devices.
In that case, the Obama administration has argued that warrantless tracking is permitted because Americans enjoy no “reasonable expectation of privacy” in their–or at least their cell phones’–whereabouts. U.S. Department of Justice lawyers say that “a customer’s Fourth Amendment rights are not violated when the phone company reveals to the government its own records” that show where a mobile device placed and received calls.
So, what do you think? Democrats were up in arms when Bush wanted to tap the calls of terrorists who want to attack our country… Obama wants to track American citizens because we have no “reasonable expectation of privacy.”
Bring Back Bush. Down with Big Brother.
