This is an essential right because it allows people to discuss their ideas, concerns, and feelings with others without the shadow of government surveillance. The First Amendment protects our right to associate with individuals and groups without disclosing that information to the government. The CO-TRAVELER program is based on guilt by association, tracking location to determine our relationships and where we meet. EO 12333 has few limits on surveillance overseas, even if it is a U.S.

ItвЂ™s likely that this program falls under Executive Order 12333. law, the spying is regulated only by Executive OrdersвЂ“orders by the President that are not subject to substantive oversight, and can be modified at any time. law does not apply because they are not вЂњtargetingвЂќ U.S. This is information that would be impossible to collect using traditional law enforcement methods.ДЄn NSA official said that the agencyвЂ™s collection methods are вЂњtuned to be looking outside the United States.вЂќ This appears to be an attempt to assert that U.S. government to know who we are with in-person and where. The cell site information goes beyond email and phone calls and ordinary telephony data, allowing the U.S. It creates a portrait of travel times and people who crossed paths, revealing our physical interactions and relationships. The Supreme Court has yet to rule on cell phone location, but did hold that planting a GPS device on a car requires a warrant, without reaching a decision on whether the warrantless tracking itself would violate the Fourth Amendment.Д¬O-TRAVELER does not simply collect location information. But the Fifth and Sixth Circuit have approved the seizure of cell phone location records without a warrant. In 2008 the Third Circuit federal appeals court correctly held that federal magistrates have the discretion to require the government to get a search warrant based on probable cause before obtaining cell phone location records. The Fourth Amendment Protects Cell Phone Location DataД®FF has been working for years to get the courts to recognize that the government must get a warrant before seizing cell phone location records. Thinking globally, the program disregards international human rights law, which is currently in the process of being reaffirmed in a draft resolution by the UN General Assembly. persons.Д¬O-TRAVELER ignores fundamental values in the Constitution the NSA has sworn to uphold, including the right against unreasonable search and seizure as well as freedom of association. While allegedly aimed at foreigners and mobile phones overseas, the NSA admits that it has вЂњincidentallyвЂќ collected location information on U.S. The trillions of collected records, which add up to twice the amount of data in the Library of CongressвЂ™ print collection, are saved and stored in the NSAвЂ™s mammoth database called FASCIA. The program even tracks when your phone is turned on or off.

It maps the relationships of cell phone users across global mobile network cables, gathering data about who you are physically with and how often your movements intersect with other cell phone users. With neither public debate nor court authorization, CO-TRAVELER collects billions of records daily of cell phone user location information. The program, codenamed CO-TRAVELER, is designed to track who meets with whom and covers everyone who carries a cell phone, all around the world. An article yesterday in the Washington Post disclosed the NSA's massive cell phone location program.

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