As U.S. Attorney, Chris Christie Approved Warrantless Tracking Of Suspects

[katty]

(your fed $ at work for : warrantless wiretaps, torture and war)

more: http://thinkprogress.org/

As U.S. Attorney, Chris Christie Approved Warrantless Tracking Of Suspects Using Cell Phone GPS
While serving as a U.S. attorney during the Bush administration, Christopher Christie, now a Republican candidate for Governor in New Jersey, tracked the whereabouts of citizens through their cell phones without warrants. The ACLU obtained the documents detailing the spying program from the Justice Department in an ongoing lawsuit over cell phone tracking.

While the documents reveal 79 such cases on or after Sept. 12, 2001, they do not specify how many of the applications were made during Christie's tenure. Christie served as U.S. attorney from Jan. 17, 2002 through November 2008. ACLU staff attorney Catherine Crump noted:

Tracking the location of people's cell phones reveals intimate details of their daily routines and is highly invasive of their privacy. The government is violating the Constitution when it fails to get a search warrant before tracking people this way.

The new revelations about the cell phone tracking program under Christie is yet another example of the warrantless spying programs authorized under the Bush administration.

[customerserviceguy]

1. I've always assumed that I could be tracked through my cell phone

The entire global positioning system was developed for use by the military. Private industries, including cell phone companies, figured out how to decode the signals and use them in their technology.

I'm curious why anyone thinks this is substantially any different from having traffic cops with radar guns on the Interstate looking for speeders, or the high speed photography systems that will take your car's license plate photo if you blast through an EZPass toll booth without having a valid radio tag in your car.