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The government has gone to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit in Philadelphia to defend its rights to your cell phone's whereabouts. They are stridently defending their right to know where your cell phone has been and where it is right now without a search warrant or any oversight whatsoever.
You know whats worse? I heard this story on Marketplace, got to thinking, and started this post. As I typed out 'The government has' I paused. I wanted to be more specific and tell you what part of the government, what department was spending their money and wasting the courts time exercising their right to your privacy. The thing is, I couldn't easily find out who it was. The story I heard, the story as Fox tells it, the story at Reuters, Press TV, etc. all tell a story about The Government or A Government Petition or The Government Appeals etc. Some mention the DEA or the FBI, but this is only when they talk about who will take advantage of the ruling if it is allowed, not who is making the case.
You mean to tell me the whole damn government needs to know where I am and where I've been?
THIS is whyipaytaxes.
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Obfuscation of which branch filed it- means there are juicy connections. This is a GRRRREAT (can you hear the tony tiger here) question you ask!!!! We have the very bad habit of lumping all branches of the government into one amorphous, omnipotent cloud but the branches of gov. are as distinct as the different branches of the primate evolutionary tree. Lumping judges together with slime covered governors is as grotesque as lumping humans together with baboons. Most of us would argue there are SIGNIFICANT differences! So...the journey to uncover WHO is behind this petition...and more importantly, HOW are they benefiting. It's hard to follow the money- but when it's not transparent you just KNOW it's gotta be a juicy trail that will have us all scowling.
Why the 3rd circuit court? Why Philadelphia? Who are the politicians involved? Who are their pet lobbiests? I REALLY want to draw the line to comcast as the underhanded enemy but that's my own personal bias against the cable company monopoly.
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