Americans Are Now Tracked and Watched Digitally
Government facing accusations it is 'warrantlessly tracking'
Americans are getting a warning that they are being watched digitally, whether they agree to the spying or not.
The warning is coming from the Rutherford Institute, which has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a dispute now pending before the Supreme Court, in Hammond v. U.S.
The warning is that "Americans are being swept up into a massive digital data dragnet that does not distinguish between those who are innocent of wrongdoing, suspects, or criminals. "
The Rutherford Institute said it is "challenging the government’s unconstitutional practice of warrantlessly tracking people’s location and movements through their personal cell phones in violation of the Fourth Amendment."
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Institute attorneys charge that technological advancements in cell phone providers' ability to obtain data on their users' whereabouts, especially as a result of cell site proliferation due to 5G networks, means that law enforcement can use "triangulation methods" to identify a person's location, very specifically.
So the technology knows when you are at church, or at home, at a library, a theater or a political event.
The amicus brief, filed in cooperation with the Cato Institute, addresses the issue.
"Cell phones have become de facto snitches, offering up a steady stream of digital location data on users' movements and travels," said constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute and author of Battlefield America: The War on the American People.
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"Added to that, police are tracking people's movements by way of license plate toll readers; scouring social media posts; triangulating data from cellphone towers and WiFi signals; layering facial recognition software on top of that; and then cross-referencing footage with public social media posts, all in an effort to identify, track and eventually round us up. This is what it means to live in a suspect society."
The case at hand developed following a series of armed robberies in 2017 in Michigan and Indiana.
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