I don’t really see how this bill achieves much in the way of insuring that these devices are used correctly, and according to any/all laws that might be in force today, or in the future.

Every one not engaged in criminal activity, or deriving their incomes from criminal activity, most assuredly want the police to catch the “bad guys” as quickly as possible. But we don’t want to give up even more of our privacy than we have—particularly with the Obama Admin going to great ends to capture “metadata” relating to our telephone, and use, and most likely much of our Internet use. To have local government now decide it has access to technology to insure that it can track anyone it wants for any reason it wants really makes it harder and harder to believe that we are living in a free country any more.

I’d like to see laws that require the police to identify the number of times that they used these devices. I’d like to know that there were court orders authorizing the use. I’d like to know that the data collected during the device’s use was not examined for any purpose other than in pursuit of the person(s) under investigation at the time. I’d like to see laws prohibiting the storage of this data not related to the actual investigation discarded very, very, quickly. I’d like to know that lawyers out on fishing expeditions will not have access to data about people locations—collected unintentionally by the police, and funded by the taxpayers.

At the moment, Democrat Jerry Hill’s bill doesn’t seem to address any of these concerns, and I’d like to know why Sen. Hill does not seem more interested in protecting our privacy.

Everybody by now knows about "six degrees of separation" theory. With the collection of enough data, anybody could be linked to any crime, in very few steps.

Sure, just because my license plate was recorded at an intersection where somebody made a cell-phone call to an apartment building where a neighbor had a business associate whose partner died under mysterious circumstances, doesn't prove anything, but can look awfully suspicious when presented by someone in authority with an interest in making me look guilty. Nah, would never happen in real life.