Americans warned: Police now authorized to track you via cell phone

[Elderberry]

WND 5/1/2022

'Have become de facto snitches, offering a steady stream of digital location data'

Police across America now can track citizens through their cell phones – without a warrant – despite the Fourth Amendment's ban on warrantless searches, according to a team of civil-rights lawyers at the Rutherford Institute.

That's the result of the U.S. Supreme Court deciding not to intervene in a lower court decision that authorized exactly that.

The institute had filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case Hammond v. U.S. that challenged the tracking of people through their cell phones as unconstitutional.

That tracking can tell police a person's location with great precision, "whether that person is at home, at the library, a political event, a doctor's office, etc.," the organization reported.

"Americans are being swept up into a massive digital data dragnet that does not distinguish between those who are innocent of wrongdoing, suspects, or criminals. Cell phones have become de facto snitches, offering up a steady stream of digital location data on users’ movements and travels," said constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute.

More: https://www.wnd.com/2022/05/americans-warned-police-now-authorized-track-cell-phone/

[DefiantMassRINO]

Leave the cell phone at home.

[mountaineer]

Faraday bag?

[Elderberry]

Faraday bag?

That will cut off all communication to and from your phone.

[Free Vulcan]

Faraday bag?

Bought a couple awhile back.

They work.

[roamer_1]

Faraday bag?

It is worth considering for if/when it becomes needful. I have a large checkbook sized leather wallet which was constructed with a faraday cage within... I use it for holding money, cards, receipts, and possibles normally, but it will hold my phone too if desired, so at any given time, all I need to do is slip it in there and snap it shut, and I will disappear off the net. It costs me nothing to have that capability, other than looking for the option when I bought the wallet.

[DCPatriot]

WND 5/1/2022

'Have become de facto snitches, offering a steady stream of digital location data'

Police across America now can track citizens through their cell phones – without a warrant – despite the Fourth Amendment's ban on warrantless searches, according to a team of civil-rights lawyers at the Rutherford Institute.

That's the result of the U.S. Supreme Court deciding not to intervene in a lower court decision that authorized exactly that.

The institute had filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case Hammond v. U.S. that challenged the tracking of people through their cell phones as unconstitutional.

That tracking can tell police a person's location with great precision, "whether that person is at home, at the library, a political event, a doctor's office, etc.," the organization reported.

"Americans are being swept up into a massive digital data dragnet that does not distinguish between those who are innocent of wrongdoing, suspects, or criminals. Cell phones have become de facto snitches, offering up a steady stream of digital location data on users’ movements and travels," said constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute.

More: https://www.wnd.com/2022/05/americans-warned-police-now-authorized-track-cell-phone/

As a 76 year old, I couldn't care less!

I even keep my Google Location 'on', so that I get a monthly message with pic of where I went.  Use it for my gas and mileage verifications.

If I'm ever going to attend a Black September type even, I'll be sure and take the battery and sim out before I leave home.  /S   

[mountaineer]

NO PRIVACY! Google Claims ‘Right’ to Give Police Your Data Without a Warrant
Autumn Johnson
July 28th, 2022 3:53 PM

Google says it will give user information to law enforcement with no warrant in cases of an “emergency.”

CNET reported this week that Google would give police access to a user’s Nest video footage without a warrant in “emergency” situations. The company’s Terms of Service (TOS) paint a concerning picture of the way it values user privacy.

"If we reasonably believe that we can prevent someone from dying or from suffering serious physical harm, we may provide information to a government agency -- for example, in the case of bomb threats, school shootings, kidnappings, suicide prevention and missing persons cases," Google's TOS page reads. "We still consider these requests in light of applicable laws and our policies."

The policy says it would notify a user if it receives a warrantless request from law enforcement for their data unless an “emergency” exists. ...

More at Newsbusters

[GtHawk]

Faraday bag?

That's the first thing I thought of. As long as you don't take it out of the bag your safe, so if you don't want anyone to know where you are going/been leave it in the bag or leave it at home.

[Smokin Joe]

That tracking can tell police a person's location with great precision, "whether that person is at home, at the library, a political event, a doctor's office, etc.," the organization reported.

You mean, like tracking ballot box stuffers on an election night?

[Hoodat]

So police are finally authorized to do what the federal government has been doing since 2009?

[roamer_1]

So police are finally authorized to do what the federal government has been doing since 2009?

They have ALL been tracking for a long time. They have ALL had access to phone tracking history for a long time too.