“Nevada quietly signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device virtually in real time,” reports the Associated Press. “All without a warrant.” The software from Fog Data Science, adopted this January in Nevada through a Department of Public Safety contract, pulls information from smartphone apps in order to let state investigators identify the location of mobile devices. [More]
No warrant needed and the only thing limiting usage is an agreement…?
Think how much the state could save on traffic stops if it let AI send out speeding tickets! Besides, if you’re not doing anything wrong, you shouldn’t need the Fourth and Fifth Amendments.
Autofascism: Another reason not to go to Vegas…
[Via JG]
