Philadelphia is the right to seek assurances judge and telephone records of the police, clients of the possible position of the Court of Appeal ruled on Tuesday discussed the case of electronic privacy.
If Pennsylvania with government records S, the interest in the past shows the location of the caller. Sign up for cell phone tower may be the location of the user, a few hundred meters.
In the case of drugs Pittsburgh, federal agents obtained the judge insisted that data. The use of models to show customers by telephone, usually at home, at work or elsewhere, "she said.
Government has insisted that the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act, only "reasonable grounds" is necessary data relevant to a criminal investigation, could lead the Commission a greater need.
Tuesday's decision was a victory for groups of privacy online.
"My concern is not" pass t agree with the lowest standard spy? "Susan Freiwald, Professor told the University of San Francisco, the law in cyberspace, the legal profession.
However, the court said the amount of data is always a need for mobile phone companies.
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Patrick Leahy D - Vermont. Principal author of the law in 1986 has promised to re-application is submitted to the Electronic Privacy Act "obsolete".
Witte 夿´é·æ¯æ¯æ´ 32 by a judge sentences, judges have the option and may be required before, and if possible to determine the reasons for the need, the need for more government information.
Pittsburgh judge ordered the group to do more research on the facts "and a sufficient explanation that the government should have the right to privacy of information for users of mobile phones (not just desire) equilibrium ".
U.S. Magistrate Lisa Pupo Lenihan said the 2008 data, the possible causes of the issue, call the "very personal and sensitive information."
Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union, stood against the government "on them.
U.S. Department of Justice is reviewing the decision and made no comment, said a spokesman.
Government argued that access to the right only to secure areas, such as text or e-mail requires the content of electronic communications or interception. At the hearing in February, said counsel for the Department of Justice Mark Wiler corner, he asked "no data content.
Sloviter speculated during the hearing, the police, they are used in major criminal cases, sufficient information to obtain orders.
"I think it should be a consequence of large-scale electronic privacy, not just access to phone records of his problem," said Kevin Bankston, Electronic Frontier Foundation argued that the lawyers situation.
The expression "(e must avoid) the tools lower courts issued an arrest warrant and a possible violation of the Constitution of the tracking and tracing," he said Tuesday.
Freiwald hopes that the court should go further, you should always have a record to potentially sensitive.
"The court is required to circumvent the Fourth Amendment issue when it comes to new technologies of communication," Freiwald said.
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