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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. Re:Where is the controversy? by commodore64_love · · Score: 1, Troll

    >>>AND LEFT HIS DOOR OPEN so the officer followed.

    And when the officer did that, he committed a crime. Just because a person leaves a door open (whether a house or car) does not mean the government can enter the property without a warrant. Time-and-time again the Supreme Court has ruled these searches unconstitutional and thrown-out the evidence.

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  2. Re:Where is the controversy? by FlyByPC · · Score: 0, Troll

    Can you imagine the reaction from Congressional Republicans if Bill Clinton had been the one running the War on Terror?

    No -- because he wouldn't have trumped up such an abomination.

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