A short post of some of last weeks quiet headlines (October 24 2014)
Bad phone privacy news
Cops Need a Warrant to Grab Your Cell Tower Data, Florida Court Rules
Bad phone privacy news
The database, which affects unknown numbers of people, contains phone records that at least five police agencies in southeast Virginia have been collecting since 2012 and sharing with one another with little oversight. Some of the data appears to have been obtained by police from telecoms using only a subpoena, rather than a court order or probable-cause warrant. Other information in the database comes from mobile phones seized from suspects during an arrest.Good phone privacy news
The five cities participating in the program, known as the Hampton Roads Telephone Analysis Sharing Network, are Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Chesapeake and Suffolk, according to the memorandum of understanding that established the database.
Cops Need a Warrant to Grab Your Cell Tower Data, Florida Court Rules
Police departments around the country have been collecting phone metadata from telecoms and using a sophisticated spy tool to track people through their mobile phones—often without obtaining a warrant. But a new ruling out of Florida has curbed the activity in that state, on constitutional grounds. It raises hope among civil liberties advocates that other jurisdictions around the country may follow suit.
The Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday that obtaining cell phone location data to track a person’s location or movement in real time constitutes a Fourth Amendment search and therefore requires a court-ordered warrant.
Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani man on drugs charges today - that's 59 beheaded this year by one of the UK and US's closest allies.
— Rori Donaghy (@roridonaghy86) October 24, 2014
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