Big brother- The fact that federal, state, and local law enforcement can get communications “meta data”—URLs of sites visited, e-mail message headers, numbers dialed, GPS locations, etc.—without any real oversight or reporting requirements is shocking,but it isn’t. The courts ruled in that law enforcement doesn’t need to show probable cause to get your physical location via the cell phone grid. All of the aforementioned metadata are accessed with an easy-to-obtain pen register/trap & trace order.
