In one case, it helped police find a man in the woods who had been missing for 24 hours. In another instance, a parent abducted their child and fled to Pennsylvania, but the technology helped deliver the child home safely. It even led police directly to a 14-year-old missing girl locked in a hotel room.
In all of these incidents, Minnesota law-enforcement officials say the use of secretive cell-phone tracking devices were critical in quickly solving crimes that had stumped police using traditional methods.
But with concerns about mass surveillance and data privacy growing nationally, legislators want to know more about what kind of data local law-enforcement agencies are collecting and how they plan to use it.
Law enforcement’s use of cell-phone tracking devices gets legislative scrutiny
Source: minnpost.com
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