Justice Sotomayor went on to say, “Individuals have no control over their “physical location as it depends upon the location of the cell phone towers that service them'”. The court should not hold that the mere possibility of government misconduct can ‘ render constitutional a program that Congress never authorized.” In this case of United States v Jones (2010), Justice Sotomayor wrote in her concurrence: “The usefulness of GPS as a tool for surveillance becomes apparent when one considers how few data points are needed before a close approximation can be drawn of a person’s first amendment associational and movement patterns. Supreme Court on June 22nd, 2010, the court ruled that law enforcement can obtain an individual’s location information from their wireless carrier without a warrant for up to 180 days after the request has been made. ![]() Your cellular provider might be able to track your whereabouts and the numbers that you call, in real time! And if they’re not already doing it, they soon will be. If you think your cell phone is private, think again.
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