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Man Stalks Ex-girlfriend With GPS

Posted by michael on from the oh-look-it's-you-again dept.

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.

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  1. Better Articles by the+pickle · · Score: 5, Informative

    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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  2. WOW - this guy had a SATELLITE too? by RagingChipmunk · · Score: 5, Informative

    "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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