Monday, October 15, 2012

Government claims Americans have 'no reasonable expectation of privacy' with cell phone usage

http://www.naturalnews.com/037538_cell_phones_search_warrants_privacy.html

U.S. attorney Nathan Judish argued recently before the 5th Circuit Court in New Orleans that the government need not obtain a probable cause search warrant for cellphone user data because, he says, customers have "no reasonable expectation of privacy." (No word on whether he - or the Justice Department as a whole - takes that same stance for customers of traditional "landline" telephones.)

Judish - senior counsel for the Justice Department's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section - "argued that because cellphone companies store usage information at their own discretion, they act as witnesses in a criminal investigation where any relevant information is admissible without a warrant,"

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/037538_cell_phones_search_warrants_privacy.html#ixzz29NAs27E4

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