As the marriage of big business/big government continues along its blissful path, we’re in store for yet another Orwellian development in this cozy relationship. The federal government now wants to be able to track individual cell phone use via the customer’s service provider without a warrant: “…the Obama administration has argued that warrantless tracking is permitted because Americans enjoy no “reasonable expectation of privacy” in their–or at least their cell phones’–whereabouts. U.S. Department of Justice lawyers say that “a customer’s Fourth Amendment rights are not violated when the phone company reveals to the government its own records” that show where … Continue reading Time to Hang Up on Big Telecoms/Big Government