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Cellphone Tracking
Cellphone Tracking: Secret warrants are being granted without probable cause.
To make it less likely to be tracked via the cellphone signal, power it down completely. Otherwise the cellphone remains in constant communication with the nearest base station to adjust transmission power levels and to receive hand-off signals when the cellphone travels between cells.Federal officials are routinely asking courts to order cellphone companies to furnish real-time tracking data so they can pinpoint the whereabouts of drug traffickers, fugitives and other criminal suspects, according to judges and industry lawyers.
In some cases, judges have granted the requests without requiring the government to demonstrate that there is probable cause to believe that a crime is taking place or that the inquiry will yield evidence of a crime. Privacy advocates fear such a practice may expose average Americans to a new level of government scrutiny of their daily lives
