May 4th, 2008

Using Cell Phones to Find Missing Persons Pushes Law

Levi Pulkkinen, Seattle Post Intelligencer

The call came in to police just after midnight April 16.

Hours before, a distraught young man had phoned his mother, hinting he wanted to kill himself. When he didn't meet her as planned, she telephoned Seattle police and reported her son missing.

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"What you'd want is those rules to be in place, and, as far as we know, they are not," said Rebecca Jechke of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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