Inside Google

Law Enforcement Feasts on Cellphone Data

Erika Morphy

The application of constitutional protections in the digital world is far from clear, in many cases, but law enforcement agencies aren't waiting for permission to access data -- they're bombarding providers with requests for information. "It is an outrageous intrusion on users' privacy and potentially troublesome in terms of our eroding constitutional rights," said Consumer Watchdog's John M. Simpson.

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