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"Cellphone Tracking"

This post was written by Simon Fodden: "The good thing is that your cellphone lets others know where you are. The bad thing is that your cellphone lets others know where you are -- whether you want it to or not.

Every few seconds your cellphone checks in with either a relay tower or a GPS system, which is how it's able to perform the wonders of geolocation on Google Maps or Yelp or whatever apps you use to tell you where you are and what's available around you. Of course, all this checking in leaves electronic records with those who provide or manage the connections, records that the government finds handy to consult in certain circumstances. The question in such cases is whether government authorities should require a warrant to obtain your location data..."

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Source: Slaw.ca, 29 June 2010. Reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on June 29, 2010 (boomark / email).