Local Police Track Cellphone Data

The National Security Agency isn’t the only government entity secretly collecting data from people’s cellphones. Local police are increasingly scooping it up, too

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NSA Tracks Billions of Cell-Phone Locations Daily

The National Security Agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world

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E.U. to Suspend U.S. Data Sharing

The European Union has threatened to suspend or even terminate the crucial EU-US Terrorist Finance Tracking Program

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“Homeland Security” Tracked Peaceful Occupy Demonstrations

A Department of Homeland Security division produced daily briefings on “peaceful activist demonstrations” during the height of the Occupy Wall Street protests, documents released Tuesday revealed

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ACLU Challenges Technology Allowing Police to Track Cellphones

A secretive technology which lets police locate and track people through their cellphones in alleged violation of the US constitution will be challenged in a potential landmark court case on Thursday

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Obama Admin Argues for GPS Tracking Without a Warrant

Lawyers for the Obama administration will argue next week that US authorities are not required to obtain a search warrant before attaching a GPS device to an individual’s car in order to keep tabs on them

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FBI Tracked Internet Freedom Activist

A blogger has published once-classified FBI files that show how the agency tracked and collected information on internet activist Aaron Swartz

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Student Who Refused Tracking Chip Loses Court Case

A federal court has ruled that a Texas student who refuses to wear a school-mandated RFID tracking badge must at least wear an identification badge without a tracking chip or else change to a school without such a system

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Feds Want to Spy on Everything

Electronic privacy is all the rage in these post-Petraeus days. Can the government really go pawing through our email at will? Well, pretty much so, it turns out, at least, until the Supreme Court gets around to focusing a little bit of its attention on this newfangled, electronic world of ours

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Texas School Students Punished for Refusing to be Tracked with Microchips

A school district in Texas came under fire earlier this year when it announced that it would require students to wear microchip-embedded ID cards at all times. Now, students who refuse to be monitored say they are feeling the repercussions.

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