Bipartisan Group of Lawmakers Introduce Bicameral GPS Act
A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced the bicameral Geolocational Privacy and Surveillance Act (S-237/HR-491) Thursday, they said in a news release. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, are the prime authors, and the bill is also backed…
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by Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., and Reps. John Conyers, D-Mich., and Peter Welch, D-Vt. “Buying a smartphone shouldn’t be interpreted as giving the government a free pass to track your movements,” Wyden said in a statement. “GPS data can be a valuable tool for law enforcement, but our laws need to keep up with technology and set out exactly when and how the government can collect Americans’ electronic location data.” The bill would “provide specific and clear guidelines to ensure this valuable and effective technology is not abused,” Chaffetz said in a statement. The legislation “applies to all domestic law enforcement acquisitions of the geolocation information of individual Americans without their knowledge, including acquisitions from private companies and direct acquisitions through the use of ‘Stingrays’ and other devices,” the news release said. They posted the 20-page bill text online. In the House, the legislation was referred to the Intelligence and Judiciary committees, and in the Senate, it was referred to Judiciary.