state of Missouri to archive cell phone location data?

[Jack]

--- "Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO" wrote:

> From the Article: "The program charts drivers'
> relative speed by
> measuring the time between the intermittent signals
> cell phones send to
> towers along a stretch of road. Then, that
> information - stripped of the
> personal identification and serial numbers that
> identify the cell
> phone's owner - is overlaid with highway maps to
> determine where the
> phones are and how fast they are moving."
> 
> This says ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about issuing speeding
> tickets.  I assume
> that this is to add functionality to the KCScout
> system.  The call for
> hoax on the original email stands.  Though this has
> the POTENTIAL to do
> the speeding ticket thing ...
I'd love to see them try to prove this one in a court
of law.

Prosecutor: According to the cell phone records this
person was travelling westbound on I435 at 75 mph on
Janaury 30th of this year.

Defendent: But your honor, I don't have a driver's
license!

Prosecutor: Your honor we'd like to add the charge of
driving without a license.

Defendent: Your Honor, I'm blind and can't drive!

Prosecutor: Your Honor, clearly this man must have
been driving, we've got his cell phone records!

Judge: What was the type of vehicle the defendant was
in?

Prosecutor: We don't know.

Judge: Where there any other person's in the vehicle?

Prosecutor: We don't know.

Judge: Do you have any eyewitnesses that he was
driving?

Prosecutor: We don't know.

Judge: Case dismissed for lack of evidence.

Moral of this story, you can't prove a person was
driving a vehicle simply because you are tracking a
signal. However, the mere fact of tracking persons by
use of a tracking device without a court order smacks
of 1984 and one would hope is also a violation of
constituional rights. But since our current government
doesn't seem to care about constitional rights
anymore, I doubt this law could be overturned. Not
that we shouldn't try. But that is a topic for the
KCLUG-PAC user group. ;')

Brian JD