Bill Would Keep Big Brother’s Mitts Off Your GPS Data

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Next month, a bipartisan band of legislators will try to mitigate a different kind of damage done to civil liberties: the government’s warrantless collection of location data beamed out by your car or mobile phone.

The courts aren’t sure whether so-called “geolocation” data taken from GPS devices or cellphones is covered by the Fourth Amendment.

That ambiguity has largely enabled law enforcement to snatch it up without getting a warrant or showing probable cause.

Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat, and Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a Republican, want to make things crystal clear: no warrant, no geolocation info.

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