Mobiles to become tracking devices

"ASIO and law enforcement agencies will be able to track the movement of people through their mobile phones secretly, without obtaining a court warrant, under new laws, legal and civil liberty groups are warning.
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The Law Council of Australia says mobiles will effectively become tracking devices

Agencies will also be able to monitor the sending of emails, trace where people browse on the internet and check the destination of mobile telephone calls without warrants, under planned changes to telecommunication interception legislation.

Data able to be secretly collected in "real time" includes the geographic location of mobile phones whenever they are turned on and linked to a relay tower.

"Thus the effect (of the changes) is to grant ASIO and criminal law enforcement agencies the ability to use a person's mobile phone, effectively, as a tracking device," the Law Council of Australia says." -- Read more