Of all of the recent technological developments that have expanded the surveillance capabilities of law enforcement agencies at the expense of individual privacy, perhaps the most powerful is cell ...

Oct. 28, 2002 — Back in June, Nokia began tracking shipments of cell phones to see if using RFID and GPS technology could reduce theft. The project, part of the U.K. government’s chipping of Goods ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Assemblyman Sean M. Ryan says the Erie County Sheriff should get a search warrant when using a cell phone tracking device, known as a Stingray. Ryan says the sheriff is still ...

A federal court in Massachusetts has ruled that the government doesn’t need probable cause to obtain a warrant allowing it to use a person’s cell phone to track his past movements. According to the ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Erie County law enforcement’s use of cell phone tracking technology during the past four and a half years is legal and justified, Sheriff Timothy Howard said Wednesday. In an ...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are asking a federal court to order the U.S. Department of Justice to turn over records about the agency’s ...

Capitalizing on all the information we put into our cell phones, Verizon Wireless is selling all our app usage and location information to marketers, reports CNET's Declan McCullagh. Part of what it ...

A U.S. district court has begun hearing arguments in a case with major implications for the government’s secret tracking of cell phones. Daniel David Rigmaiden, who faces fraud charges, wants the ...