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12th February 2010

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Can the FBI Secretly Track Your Cell Phone? - Declassified Blog - Newsweek.com →

Currently, the records are obtained under what are known as “2703(d)” orders—a reference to an obscure provision of a federal law known as the Stored Communications Act—in which prosecutors only need to assert that there are “reasonable grounds” to believe the records are “relevant” to an ongoing federal criminal investigation, a much lower standard that that needed for a search warrant.