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Secret GPS Tracking Now Legal In Massachusetts

Posted by timothy on from the unsecret-kind-requires-anklet dept.

dr. fuzz writes "The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has ruled in favor of John Law tracking you with secret GPS devices in Massachusetts provided a warrant is obtained. You've been warned. To the dissenters' credit, Justice Ralph Gants is quoted with 'Our constitutional analysis should focus on the privacy interest at risk from contemporaneous GPS monitoring, not simply the property interest.'"

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  1. To be fair... by KingSkippus · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has ruled in favor of John Law tracking you with secret GPS devices in Massachusetts provided a warrant is obtained.

    To be fair, that's a lot better than in Wisconsin, where they use secret GPS devices to track you without a warrant.

  2. Re:Where is the controversy? by swanzilla · · Score: 5, Informative

    Call me a troll, but I'd like to remind everyone that what W started, the O is continuing...

    I won't call you a troll, but I'll remind you that neither Bush nor Obama had any hand in composing the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights, which spelled out what was considered unreasonable search and seizure. The appointing of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court members is also completely independant of the Executive Branch.

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