Posted on 07/26/2011 2:06:08 PM PDT by tutstar
A group of Senators questioned the general attorney for the National Security Agency Tuesday about whether U.S. intelligence agencies are using cell phone geo location data to track U.S. citizens without their knowledge.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the leader of the National Counterterrorism Center Matthew Olson told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that: "There are certain circumstances where that authority may exist."
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That was a very lawyerly answer - a NON answer, answer:
He left open the possibility that they perform telephone intercept even in cases in which they have no formal authority to do so.
And everyone knows that has been going on for DECADES.
I hope you aren’t holding your breath!
:^\
Not too far off
When you decide to go after the SOBs leave your cell phone at a McDonalds or the Library.
I don’t own a cell phone (what’s so d@mn important that you can’t wait till you get to your home or office phone?)
Or a Blackberry (I read email on my desktop).
Or a GPS/TomTom (I learned to read a map in the Army. I plan itineraries on MapQuest before traveling).
Of course, the gubmint knows who each and every one of us FReepers are, but what the heck?
This has been happening for years. The ability to track cell phones continues to used by law enforcement to catch guys, while they’re running from the police. Its how they go after terrorists and insurgents during combat op’s. Can it be used and abused by the government, but in some instances, there are quite a few bad guys in jail because of that technology.
Now you are really making me paranoid.
Don’t worry, they’ll be tracking your car soon enough. They’ll call it a ‘mileage tax’, just to make it sound less nasty...but some of us know their motivation.
Shhhhh! You'll disturb The Force!!!!
Besides, it's not the government we need to worry about it's Ma and Pa Democrat operatives tracking Newt Gingrich.
Ah, it’s just Big Bro and Big Sis looking over your shoulder (at everything you do). I’m sure it’s only for our own good. /s
This has been going on for years.
Blue tooth was specifically designed for it.
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