ACLU: Most police track phones' locations without warrants
Article from CNN:
According to the ACLU, many law enforcement agencies across the U.S. track cell phones as part of their investigations.
- ACLU: Phone location tracking is a common tool of police, often without a warrant
- Fewer than 5% of agencies say they've never tracked a cell phone's location
- Most carriers require a court order to implement cell phone surveillance
- Cell phone companies have manuals for police explaining what data they store
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The Crucial Credit Lesson Everyone Should Learn From 'The New Girl'
Article from Business Insider:
We don't often find ourselves taking money advice from primetime television, but a recent episode of FOX sitcom "New Girl" should be required viewing for anyone looking to buy a new cell phone.
In it, Zooey Deschanel's character, Jess, helps her roommate, Nick, pick out a new cell phone. When the store runs a routine credit check and turns up a comically low score of 250, everyone comes out to gawk.
"I've just never seen a score this low," a worker says. "Did you just wake up from a coma?"
He hasn't: Nick's score is so low that in the end, he winds up walking off without a phone at all.
That led us to wonder: How much does your credit score factor into y…………………continues on Business Insider
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