Feds protect secret plan to kill cell-phone service
Supreme Court urged to make it public
BOB UNRUH
WND.com
Dec. 14, 2015
People live their lives on their cell phones these days – more and more even are cutting off their land lines as an unnecessary expense and relying solely on their wireless links to the rest of the world.
But what happens when the government decides – for whatever reason – to shut down that network?
What if it just pulls the plug on Americans’ cell service?
Among other impacts, people wouldn’t even be able to call 9-1-1 in an emergency, according to new documents filed with the U.S. Supreme Court by officials with Electronic Privacy Information Center,
The organization has been fighting a campaign to gain access to the policy established by the federal government for shutting down cell-phone networks for whatever reasons may arise.
The organization notes that the government did exactly that during a peaceful protest at a Bay Area Rapid Transit system station in 2012.
It says it got a redacted copy of the federal plan some time ago, but that essentially answered none of the significant questions.
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