Mike writes "According to a Washington Post article, federal officials are routinely asking and getting courts to order cellphone companies to furnish real-time tracking data on subscribers. The data is used to pinpoint the whereabouts of 'criminal... ...full story at slashdot
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| 23 Nov 07 |
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Secret Warrants Granted for Cellphone Tracking » digg Federal officials are routinely asking courts to order cellphone companies to give real-time tracking data so they can pinpoint the whereabouts of drug traffickers, fugitives and other criminal suspects, according to judges and industry lawyers. In some... |
| 16 Jul 08 |
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After 7 Years: National Disease-Tracking System Is Not Done » digg You might think that in the event of a major epidemic across the U.S., public health officials at the federal, state and local levels could track the outbreak electronically, using real-time data to try to control the spread of the disease.But you'd be... |
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Cell Phone Tracking Reveals Users' Habits » slashdot DinkyDogg writes "'New research that makes creative use of sensitive location-tracking data from 100,000 cellphones in Europe suggests that most people can be found in one of just a few locations at any time, and that they do not generally go far from... |
| 16 May 08 |
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Keeping Customer From Accessing My Database? » slashdot cyteen02 writes "We run a data processing and tracking system for a customer in the UK. We provide a simple Web site where the customer can display the tracking data held in our Oracle database. From these screens they can query based on a combination of... |
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Princeton Researchers Say Feds Need Data Standard » slashdot dcblogs writes "The federal government's data-sharing efforts are a mess, and if Barack Obama really wants a useful 'Google for government,' he would have to set the government's vast amount of data free by exposing it and ensuring it complies to... |
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