Lawmakers Re-Introduce GPS Protection Bill Against Government Spying

Just two days after new legislative reform on e-mail privacy was re-introduced in Congress, another privacy bill was brought back from years past.

On Thursday, three members of the House (two Republicans and a Democrat) and two bipartisan senators introduced the GPS Act, which would require law enforcement to obtain a probable cause-driven warrant before accessing a suspect’s geolocation information. The bill had originally been introduced nearly two years ago by the same group of legislators.

As Ars’ Tim Lee wrote in 2012, the Obama Administration laid out its position in a legal brief last year, arguing that customers have "no privacy interest" in cell-site location records (CSLR) held by a network provider. [...]