#cellphone data

IOWA CITY, Iowa | APNewsBreak: 4 faced scrutiny before arrest in Tibbetts case

IOWA CITY, Iowa— Before they arrested a farmhand in the death of Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts, investigators scrutinized four other potential suspects during their five-week search.

Newly unsealed search warrants show they included a neighbor seen washing his SUV hours after Tibbetts vanished, a Nebraska man who ditched his vehicle in Iowa days later and an acquaintance who told police…

What Limits to Police Cellphone Tracking?

Police departments across the USA quietly use a highly secretive technology developed for the military that can track the whereabouts of suspects by using the signals constantly emitted by their cellphones. At least 72 state and local law enforcement departments in 24 states plus 13 federal

Now that I'm living alone in a foreign country and paying for my own cellphone, I'm finding it very difficult to track down a plan that is both a good price and fits my needs--because I know absolutely nothing of either of these two factors.

But my friend sent me this handy dandy cellphone data usage page that describes what the general data usage of things is. In case anyone else is currently having to be an adult and wants to know about data.

With that said, I'm off to China Mobile later today to try and haggle a decent price on a yearly plan, since they shut my phone down last night (lol whoops.)

Government collection, searches of phone data nothing new

Consumers may feel shocked at learning that the government has been collecting some of their cellphone data, but legislators and privacy experts say secretive data aggregation by the federal government has been going on for quite some time, all permissible under the sweeping powers of the Patriot Act.