3Qs: Mobile tracking in criminal investigations
Monday, April 16, 2012 - 08:04
in Mathematics & Economics
Last week, the American Civil Liberties Union released a new report revealing that law-enforcement agencies frequently use cell-phone tracking data provided by wireless carriers often without a warrant. Northeastern University news office asked Sharon Fray-Witzer, a lecturer in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and a practicing criminal defense attorney, to analyze the use of wireless tracking data in criminal investigations and whether it infringes on users privacy.