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Police track cellphones without court approval

By Eric Lichtblau

 |  New York Times  

  April 01, 2012

Law enforcement tracking of cellphones, once the province mainly of federal agents, has grown into a powerful and widely used surveillance tool for local police officials as well, with hundreds of departments, large and small, often using it aggressively with little or no court oversight, new documents show.

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