Are we becoming a nation of cell phones?
1 I'm afraid we are well past the "becoming" stage-- we have already "become" a nation of cell phones. One of the things that strikes me as funny is to hear another woman in a restroom stall talking away--what, she can't even hang up long enough to go pee? Remind me never to borrow *her* cell phone!
And at my dentist's office, they have a sign posted that says you can't talk on your cell phone while being seen by the dentist. WTF?!? Are people so stupid that they have to be told to get off the phone while the dentist is working inside their mouths?
But the office staff there assured me that it had become a problem, which is why they had the sign made! Kat .
A federal magistrate judge, in a good and strong decision, had ruled that the government must always get a warrant if it wants cell-phone data. The appeals court scaled that back a bit, ruling that magistrate judges have the power to require the government to get a warrant, depending on the facts of the particular case. The fight over cell-phone tracking is similar to one now going on in the courts over GPS devices?
Specifically, whether the government needs a warrant to place a GPS device on someone's car. (The courts are sharply divided on the question.) Cell-phone tracking is of far bigger consequence, however, because there is a limit to how many GPS devices police are going to put on cars. Nine out of 10 of us have cell phones that will do the tracking for the government.
The House of Representatives has been holding hearings on this issue and related ones, and a Senate hearing next week is likely to consider it further. It is time for Congress to act. It should amend the Electronic Communications Privacy Act to make clear that information from our cell phones about where we are and where we have been is deeply private?
And that without a search warrant, the government cannot have it. Cohen, a lawyer, is a former TIME writer and a former member of the New York Times editorial board. Case Study, his legal column for TIME.com, appears every Wednesday.
See TIME's photographic history of the cell phone. See 10 ways to stay connected on the road.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.
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