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Man Stalks Ex-girlfriend With GPS
grouchomarxist writes "According to this article at CNN: Police arrested a man they said tracked his ex-girlfriend's whereabouts by attaching a global positioning system to her car. Police said Gabrielyan attached a cellular phone to the woman's car on August 16 with a motion switch that turned on when the car moved, transmitting a signal each minute to a satellite. Information was then sent to a Web site that allowed Gabrielyan to monitor the woman's location." A ruling last year stated that police need a warrant to track individuals in a similar fashion.
This has also been covered briefly on Engadget and more thoroughly on BoingBoing, where links to the original article and the District Attorney's report are provided.
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"transmitting a signal each minute to a satellite." WOW - this guy had a SATELLITE too? ...Why does the News continually report GPS technology as sending data TO a satellite - GPS receivers are completely passive.
Either our media/news is completely ignorant, or they assume that all their readers are completely ignorant.
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That's what happens when you read posts like this one while trying to tie up your yacht at the dock in the middle of Hurricane Frances. I'd provide a link but I can't seem to find any clips from that video on the Web. If you've seen any news in the last 36 hours, you'll know what video I'm talking about, though.
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See this archive on The Smoking Gun from a man arrested for doing the same thing in 2002. I guess someone else just took the hint and tried it again 2 years later.
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"Meet Paul Seidler. The 42-year-old Wisconsin man was just busted on charges that he conducted a high-tech stalking campaign directed at a former girlfriend. Kenosha police allege that Seidler placed a Global Positioning System tracking device under the hood of the woman's car and began monitoring her movements."
Hey, it's a slow weekend, so I think a near-dupe of not-so-cutting-edge news is forgivable
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
This kind of stuff has been done for years by hams. Google for APRS (Automatic Position Reporting System). It's a very cool protocol whereby a GPS unit can interface with a ham radio which reports its position to internet-linked repeaters via packet every few minutes. Many hams have installed these on their cars or boats and provided a website so you can see where they are. It's a very cool technology - my friend had a unit for a long time. He finally took it out of his car and put it in his boat after his wife started calling him and telling him to slow down when she saw he was speeding on the website. :-)
She was his ex-girlfriend so that does make it pretty different. you could say you have a right to modify your own property and track your wife and if she has nothing to hide then why should she have a problem with it? but why should she have to be put in a situation like that? its no different from government cameras in your home - if you have nothing to hide, why should you care? but why should you be put in that position? there are all sorts of conflicting rights going on here and the whole thing needs some looking at.
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That was a ruling by the Washington State Supreme Court (the state I live in) and I remember reading about it. This ruling has no effect in the other 49 states or on the Feds. While the ruling may influence other judges, the Washington State Constitution generally has more citizen friendly rules on privacy and related matters than the U. S. Constitution or most state constitutions, which may narrow the applicability of the reasoning in this case to other judicial venues.
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Do you know what they do? You're thinking of an obstrecian (sp), who handle pregnancies. Gyns do routine check-ups and handle anything else related to feminine sexual health, which can affect a woman regardless of relationship status.
Geez, you geeks really are clueless.
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