The new equation of modern life is simple: Use a mobile phone, give up any expectation of privacy. Cell phone carriers last year responded to some 1.3 million demands for information from law enforcement – and it’s a safe bet that plenty of the people caught up in those investigations were just average Joes.
Imagine you’re a teacher talking to a parent about his kid’s misbehavior in the classroom. To save time, the busy dad uses his mobile phone to discuss ways to discipline the rowdy child.
Now, to make this ordinary teacher-parent conversation more interesting, lets pretend the FBI believes the dad is a drug kingpin. Suddenly, the innocent teacher who is just doing her job becomes a part of a federal investigation. Why? Because the suspect used his cell phone.
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