NY Times Article related to Government Mobile Tracking
It was a fear a long time ago, that the US Government would eventually have the means to know our exact location at all times. This has been a reality for most of us after the PATRIOT Act and some other National Security tactics, but apparently The American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation believe that this is an unconstitutional act and a clear case of the government overstepping their boundaries. They are requesting the records that the government has gathered and also the number of cases where they were not obtained by standard legal procedure. I feel somewhat bothered by this, then again I am a nobody, a law abiding citizen, but at the same time if anything ever happened even by false accusation, there would be police or feds picking me up on the street within minutes. There are privacy issues with buying a mobile phone, but I do not believe that we should have our information traded around with no reason for such action. The article says that signing up for a contract with a mobile phone company should not be "synonymous with signing up to be spied on by the government." Well that is all I have for now, so you decide if you think that this is a practice that needs to be going on, and whether most of the general public even knows about it.
