More government intrusion

According to the ACLU, citizens should not allow their cellphones to be tracked by location.

Researching different locations in the U.S., Cape Girardeau is not the only place in the country that does not have this phone location capability.

With cameras on stop lights, the Patriot Act, the NSA spying on telephones, appliances, computers on U.S. citizens and the many over-reaching Constitutional transgressions of our president/congress/homeland security government agencies on citizens' rights, no citizen should pay to give the opportunity to local police (possibly homeland security) to have our private whereabouts at their fingertips. This program is being sold as an emergency protection/security program and it is not. So let's be honest.

Congress is considering the Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act, a bill supported by the National ACLU, requiring police to get a warrant to obtain personal location information. The bill protects both historical and real-time location data, and requires customers' consent for telecommunications companies to collect location data.

Are you on board on this program? Every senator/representative should be doing away with the Patriot Act, reigning in the NSA and Homeland Security. We need to get back to supporting our founding documents and quit convincing people to relinquish their freedoms for a false sense of safety/security.

Do not charge to my cell phone bill for this nonsense. I will make sure I know where I am if I need 911. Neither the police nor the government needs this information unless they get a warrant.

JANET BOSTON, Jackson