William Fisher reports:
 If you are a U.S. resident who owns a cell phone, you should care about  the outcome of a court case that "could well decide whether the  government can use your cell phone to track you - even if it hasn't  shown probable cause to believe it will turn up evidence of a crime." 
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Back in 2007, the U.S. government applied for court  permission to obtain information about the location of an individual's  cell phone, without showing probable cause that tracking the individual  would turn up evidence of a crime.
A magistrate judge denied the  government's request and a district court upheld that decision in  September 2008. The government is appealing the ruling in the U.S. Court  of Appeals. 
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"The [George W.] Bush administration reduced the  Fourth Amendment to nothing more than a Potemkin Village of rights,"  Boyle said. "It exists on paper alone. And a pusillanimous Congress has  gone along with shredding the entirety of the U.S. Bill of Rights."
"Pres.  Obama, the former constitutional law professor, is actively defending  in court every hideous atrocity that the Bush administration inflicted  upon the Bill of Rights, civil rights, civil liberties, human rights,  international law, and the United States Constitution with the  acquiescence and/or approval by Congress," he said. 
Read the entire article HERE.
23 February 2010
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