"We expect our cell phones to do a lot these days: make calls, check e-mail, take photographs, play music, surf Web sites, let the government track your every move. But civil liberties groups have a few questions about that last feature, and have filed a lawsuit seeking to force the Department of Justice to respond to a Freedom of Information Act Request submitted late last year, seeking documents about the practice of using mobile phones as homing beacons.

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