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Police push to continue warrantless cell tracking

Posted on June 26, 2010July 3, 2025 by Dissent

Declan McCullagh reports:

A law requiring police to obtain a search warrant before tracking Americans’ cell phones may imperil criminal investigations and endanger children’s lives, a law enforcement representative told Congress this week.

Obtaining a search warrant when monitoring the whereabouts of someone “who may be attempting to victimize a child over the Internet will have a significant slowing effect on the processing of child exploitation leads,” said Richard Littlehale of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. “If that is acceptable, so be it, but it is a downstream affect that must be considered.”

Littlehale’s remarks to a House of Representatives subcommittee come as an industry group called the Digital Due Process coalition is prodding politicians to update a mid-1980s federal law by inserting more privacy protections. The group includes Google, Microsoft, eBay, AT&T, the ACLU, and Americans for Tax Reform.

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