Guilty until proven innocent
Funny how some (not all) civil libertarians have one standard for criminal accuseds - innocent until proven guilty; and another for cops - guilty until proven innocent. Why I quit the ACLU a very long time ago - with quite a few others.
Anyway, here is a relatively restrained piece on the issues, U.S. Police Begin Warrantless Phone Data Grabs, ACLU Fights Back. But then there is this, Michigan: Police Search Cell Phones During Traffic Stops (the headline asserting a fact that is not established).
This seems the most balanced article I found on a quick search, Michigan State Police responds to ACLU’s data extraction claims (Security, by Steve Ragan - Apr 21 2011).
Brochure for Questioned Device
ACLU Letter
MSP Statement
BTW: Under Michigan law, review of FOIA is liberal. If you want, you can be in front of Circuit Judge within 2-1/2 weeks - no need to wait 2-1/2 years. So, a fair inference is that the MI ACLU does not see success in a FOIA lawsuit. Thus, its recourse has been to create a media "situation" - lots of that sort of thing happening.
Regards
Mike
Organised Crime and new technology (merged thread)
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Prof David Last told the Telegraph that criminals stealing valuable loads from lorries now routinely jammed GPS trackers on board, and were also easily able to render mobile networks useless as well.
He added that if expensive cars were stolen and then smuggled onto ferries, jammers used to block their GPS trackers could pose a serious danger to shipping as well. “Shipping is also under a real and present danger,” he said.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...mming-GPS.html
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The "GNSS Vulnerability 2012: Present Danger, Future Threats" conference will be held today at the National Physical Laboratory in England. There, the results of a recent study will show that the use of GPS jammers in the UK is on the rise — mostly due to drivers who are looking to obfuscate the movement of their vehicles. In a test conducted by the "Sentinel project," 20 roadside monitors placed near roadsides over the course of six months detected dozens of jammers on vehicles, with one location detecting 60 such incidences.
The concern, now familiar to anybody who has followed the LightSquared saga, is that interfering with GPS can do worse things than allowing a trucker to skip paying toll fees. GPS jamming is cheap and easy, and if taken to an extreme could inadvertently cause a ship to go off course. Beyond simple jamming, another issue researchers' collective radar is GPS spoofing, which is a bit more difficult but has the potential to wreak more havoc. A GPS spoofer could possibly manipulate stock trades, which are timed off the GPS clocks, though luckily no actual cases have been reported.
http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/22/28...udy-conference
See also
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-road-users-gps.html
Organised crime gets smart with technology
An interesting, if predictable article from Australia:
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Organised crime groups, drug dealers and bikies are increasingly leap-frogging the NSW Crime Commission and other law-enforcement agencies by simply using BlackBerry mobile phones and devices with special encryption technology that cannot be bugged or traced by police
Link:http://www.theage.com.au/technology/...230-2c1iy.html
I say predictable as in the UK officialdom has cited similar problems, for organised crime, CT and more in an effort to change the law on LE and intelligence access to communications data. A partial blogsite's viewpoint:http://www.bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/ho...html#more-4970