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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCreeping police state
from the NY Times:
WASHINGTON Law enforcement tracking of cellphones, once the province mainly of federal agents, has become a powerful and widely used surveillance tool for local police officials, with hundreds of departments, large and small, often using it aggressively with little or no court oversight, documents show.
The practice has become big business for cellphone companies, too, with a handful of carriers marketing a catalog of surveillance fees to police departments to determine a suspects location, trace phone calls and texts or provide other services. Some departments log dozens of traces a month for both emergencies and routine investigations.
With cellphones ubiquitous, the police call phone tracing a valuable weapon in emergencies like child abductions and suicide calls and investigations in drug cases and murders. One police training manual describes cellphones as the virtual biographer of our daily activities, providing a hunting ground for learning contacts and travels.
But civil liberties advocates say the wider use of cell tracking raises legal and constitutional questions, particularly when the police act without judicial orders. While many departments require warrants to use phone tracking in nonemergencies, others claim broad discretion to get the records on their own, according to 5,500 pages of internal records obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union from 205 police departments nationwide. ...................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/us/police-tracking-of-cellphones-raises-privacy-fears.html?_r=2&hp=&pagewanted=all
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Creeping police state (Original Post)
marmar
Apr 2012
OP
Just getting this far in their 'surveillance' activities shows they've been creeping up for awhile
lunatica
Apr 2012
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NoMoreWarNow
(1,259 posts)1. Creeping? We're already there.
They just don't put the hammer down on what we say... yet.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)2. Just getting this far in their 'surveillance' activities shows they've been creeping up for awhile
We aren't getting a police state. We have one.
Watch Rachel Maddow's and Richard Engel's Day of Destruction, Decade of War
http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/08/18/7410051-day-of-destruction-decade-of-war-to-air-91-at-9-pm-et
NYC is a Police State. Period.
I'm not making this up or exaggerating. Watch it.
marmar
(77,091 posts)4. NYC is definitely a police state. Sort of the test lab for the rest of the country.
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Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)5. Absolutely (n/t)
libtodeath
(2,888 posts)3. Many of the powers that be knew things like Occupy would eventually happen
and they have been preparing for it.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)6. So not owning or using a cell phone makes you suspicious?