From this Security Focus Story:
An appeals court this week put the brakes on an FBI surveillance technique that turns an automobile driver’s on-board vehicle navigation system into a covert eavesdropping device, after finding that the spying effectively disables the system’s emergency and roadside assistance features.
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“Although the bottom line is that the surveillance order was rejected, the real effect of it is that this kind of monitoring is permissible as long it does not interfere with the service…”
Anyone who knows me will testify that I am fairly Conservative. Stories like this make the Liberal part of me very, very worried. How long will it take before your cell phone is a mobile listening station?