NEW YORK (AP) — Civil rights lawyers and Democratic senators are pushing for legislation that would limit U.S. law enforcement agencies’ ability to buy cellphone tracking tools to follow people’s whereabouts, including back years in time, and sometimes without a search warrant.
Do we think this’ll ever actually leave committee, though? This has the stink of something that’s doomed to development hell on purpose. Just something to point to to say ‘we’re doing something now give us all your votes!!1!’