California Governor Brown Vetoes Location Privacy Law

California Governor Jerry Brown has vetoed legislation that would require law enforcement to get a probable cause warrant before accessing GPS data. According to Wired, the legislation included stipulations to handle emergency situations (a missing child, terrorist attack).

“It may be that legislative action is needed to keep the law current in our rapidly evolving electronic age,” Brown wrote in his veto message Sunday. “But I am not convinced that this bill strikes the right balance between the operational needs of law enforcement and the individual expectation of privacy.”

Apparently that "balance" is being determined solely by law enforcement:

Hanni Fakhoury, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which helped craft the legislation along with the American Civil Liberties Union, said the governor’s veto continues a “dangerous trend” of “allowing law enforcement to gorge itself on as much data and information they can eat without a warrant.”