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Obama attorneys argue for warrantless cell phone tracking http://rawstory.com/2010/02/obama-attorneys-argue-warrantless-cell-phone-tracking/

This is not change that privacy advocates can believe in. A US appeals court began weighing Friday whether police should be allowed to track citizens through their cellphones without first obtaining a warrant.

The case "could prove to be one of the most important privacy rights battles of the modern era," The Legal Intelligencer noted.Adopting a Bush-era argument, Obama administration attorneys asked the court to allow telecoms companies to hand over their subscribers' location information, even without a probable cause warrant.