{"id":1882,"date":"2005-10-27T00:01:38","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T00:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1882"},"modified":"2005-10-27T00:01:38","modified_gmt":"2005-10-27T00:01:38","slug":"no_cell_phone_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1882","title":{"rendered":"No Cell Phone Tracking Without Probable Cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/legal\/cases\/USA_v_PenRegister\/\">EFF<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Agreeing with a brief submitted by EFF, a federal judge forcefully rejected the government&#8217;s request to track the location of a mobile phone user without a warrant.<br \/>\nStrongly reaffirming an earlier decision, Federal Magistrate James Orenstein in New York comprehensively smacked down every argument made by the government in an extensive, fifty-seven page opinion issued this week. Judge Orenstein decided, as EFF has urged, that tracking cell phone users in real time required a showing of probable cause that a crime was being committed. Judge Orenstein&#8217;s opinion was decisive, and referred to government arguments variously as &#8220;unsupported,&#8221; &#8220;misleading,&#8221; &#8220;contrived,&#8221; and a &#8220;Hail Mary.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EFF: Agreeing with a brief submitted by EFF, a federal judge forcefully rejected the government&#8217;s request to track the location of a mobile phone user without a warrant. Strongly reaffirming an earlier decision, Federal Magistrate James Orenstein in New York comprehensively smacked down every argument made by the government in an extensive, fifty-seven page opinion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}