Cops can easily get months of location data, appeals court rules

Re:Cops can easily get months of location data, appeals cour... by EpicEng on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @02:24AM (#11812413)

This is ridiculously naive and unreasonable. I'm sure it sounds great to young, engaged people, but would it be impossible to implement. The cost alone would be prohibitive. It's great to have ideals, but the rest of us have to operate in the real world where silly things like money and the number of judges a cop has access to actually matter.

And what happens when someone's in danger, but the police officer is handcuffed by your proposed amendment? Witnesses heard a fight, or a gun shot, but they can't go into the house without a warrant. I'm sure I'll get a lot of downvotes for this around here, but you haven't thought this through. At all.

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Re:Cops can easily get months of location data, appeals cour... by EdHominem on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @03:49AM (#11812719)

I can make up scenarios too! But, unless they're likely they're meaningless... Ticking timebombs are movie plots, not real life.

Yes, I actually want the state to be willing to allocate some resources (spend money) to access my personal data. Anything else invites abuse.

In what scenario do you propose that witnesses heard a fight (and where death/major harm is at risk) and yet the officer still needs to contact my provider for the location of the fight? If the witnesses heard the fight, have them point to where. If they can't, how do you know if was me and how do you know which cell user to ask for data on? You don't, hence the scenario is a joke not reality.

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