{"id":3719,"date":"2010-02-11T16:35:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T21:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3719"},"modified":"2010-02-11T16:35:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T21:35:22","slug":"the-obama-administration-vs-the-aclu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3719\/the-obama-administration-vs-the-aclu\/","title":{"rendered":"The Obama Administration vs. The ACLU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone needing a reminder that the government\u2019s idea of enhanced security is destroying personal privacy should read this <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13578_3-10451518-38.html \" target=\"_blank\">article from CNET<\/a>.  Soon, a federal appeals court will hear oral arguments about whether law enforcement agencies like the FBI have the authority to demand information giving the physical location of a person\u2019s cell phone from telecom companies without a warrant.  According to the Obama Administration, people using cell phones don\u2019t have a reasonable expectation of privacy when they use items like a cell phone.  The rationale is that when you share information with another person or entity, you forfeit your Fourth Amendment rights.\u00a0 And since the cell company keeps a record of the transmission tower you link to when calling, all the government needs to do to check on your whereabouts is &#8220;ask&#8221; the company for it&#8217;s records.<\/p>\n<p>So, fair warning: the next time you call Aunt Agnes from your cell phone, Uncle Sam will be \u201casking\u201d your wireless provider for your whereabouts.  But remember \u2013 it\u2019s for your protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone needing a reminder that the government\u2019s idea of enhanced security is destroying personal privacy should read this article from CNET. Soon, a federal appeals court will hear oral arguments about whether law enforcement agencies like the FBI have the authority to demand information giving the physical location of a person\u2019s cell phone from telecom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[843,844,801,845],"class_list":["post-3719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-cell-phone","tag-fourth-amendment","tag-privacy","tag-search-warrant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3719"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3723,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions\/3723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}