Why It Matters
ISpy Conspiracy: Your IPhone Is Secretly Tracking Everywhere You’ve Been, All The Time (Updated) by Sam Biddle, April 20, 2011
Feds to Supreme Court: Allow Warrantless GPS Monitoring by David Kravets, April 19, 2011
Caught Spying on Student, FBI Demands GPS Tracker Back by Kim Zetter, October, 7 2010.
Commentary: Sprint’s GPS Technology Creates Privacy Concerns by Scott Nelson, November 10, 2011
Why I’m Unplugging From Location Based Services by Ray Wang, January 17, 2011
Privacy Please! U.S. Smartphone App Users Concerned with Privacy When it Comes to Location by NielsenWire
Government Tracking
U.S. Constitution: Fourth Amendment
State v Jackson, No. 72799-6, Supreme Ct. of Washington, September 11, 2003
United States v. McIver, 186 F.3d 1119 (9th Cir. 1999)
Katz v United States, No. 35, Supreme Ct. of the United States, December 18, 1967
United States v Cuevas-Perez, No. 10-1473, United States Ct. of Appeals, April 28, 2011
People v Zichwic, No. H021621, Ct. of Appeals, Sixth District, California, December 21, 2001
United States v Knotts, No. 81-1802, Supreme Ct. of the United States, March 2, 1983
It’s Already Public: Why Federal Officers Should Not Need Warrants to Use GPS Vehicle Tracking Devices by John S. Ganz, 2005
United States v Karo, No. 83-850, Supreme Ct. of the United States, July 3, 1984
GPS Vehicle Tracking with the Tracking Key, February 2, 2007
United States v Garcia, No. 06-2741, United States Ct. of Appeals, February 2, 2007
United States v Maynard, No. 08-3030, Consolidated with United States v Jones, No. 08-3034, United States Ct. of Appeals, Aug 6, 2010
The Mosaic Theory – A Commentary by David Pozen ’07, February 28, 2006
United States v Johnson: Petition for a Writ of Certiorari, April 2011
Feds to Supreme Court: Allow Warrantless GPS Monitoring by David Kravets, April 19, 2011
Commercial Tracking
Location Tracking in iPad and iPhone: Apple Representatives Testify Before the Senate, May 10, 2011
Apple comments on iPhone location storm, software update soon by Jacqui Cheng, May 2011
Senators press Apple, Google for answers about location tracking by Jacqui Cheng, May 2011
How Apple tracks your location without consent, and why it matters by Jacqui Cheng, May 2011
Android phones keep location cache, too, but it’s harder to access by Chris Foresman, May 2011
Outrage over TomTom speed traps for motorists by Asher Moses, May 6, 2011
TomTom caught selling speed data to Dutch Police by Jared Newman, April 29, 2011
Facebook unveils location-sharing feature ‘Places’ by Josh Lowensohn, August 18, 2010
New Facebook Location Feature Sparks Privacy Concerns by Jenna Wortham, August 18, 2010
Facebook Places: Check This Out Before You Check In by Nicole Ozer, August 18, 2010
Location Services Raise Privacy Concerns by Jesse Emspak, June 15, 2010
Fourscared and Fourscammed by Melissa Jun Rowley, April 7, 2010
Foursquare cared a lot more about $20M than your privacy by Xeni Jardin, June 30, 2010
White Hat Uses Foursquare Privacy Hole to Capture 875K Check-Ins by Ryan Singel, June 29, 2010
Legal Protections
Center for Democracy and Technology: Existing Federal Privacy Laws
The Centre for Spacial Law and Policy
Commercial Data Privacy and Innovation in the Internet Economy: A Dynamic Policy Framework by The Department of Commerce Internet Policy Task Force, 2010
Electronic Privacy Information Center
govtrack.us: a civic project to track Congress
Internet Privacy: Overview and Pending Legislation by Marcia S. Smith, July 6, 2004
The Library of Congress: Bills, Resolutions
Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change by the Federal Trade Commission, December 2010
A Review of Federal and State Privacy Laws by BBBOnline, Inc. and the Council of Better Business Bureaus, Inc
Senator pushes for mobile privacy reform by Declan McCullagh, March 22, 2011