Justice Department Loses Round in Warrantless Phone Tracking
September 9th, 2011What’s the NSA doing with all of the surveillance data that it’s collecting on Americans? There won’t be any ACLU victory dances over that one anytime soon.
Via: Cnet:
The American Civil Liberties Union is touting its victory in a case against the Department of Justice over alleged mobile phone tracking.
According to the group, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ordered the Justice Department to hand over names and case docket numbers in cases where it “accessed cell phone location data without a warrant.”
“Today’s decision is a significant victory in the fight against warrantless tracking of Americans by their government,” the ACLU wrote on its site yesterday following the court’s decision. “There is no good reason for DOJ to keep this case information secret, except to keep the American people in the dark about what its own government is doing and stifle debate about the new tracking powers the government is claiming.”
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