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GPS Tracking Without a Warrant Declared Legal

Posted by samzenpus on from the track-away dept.

jnaujok writes "The Ninth Circuit court has declared that attaching a GPS tracker to your car, as it sits in your driveway, or by extension on a public street, and then using it to monitor every one of your movements, is totally legal, and can be performed by the police without needing a warrant. So, if you live in the Western United States, big brother has arrived."

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  1. The Ninth Circuit by jgtg32a · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've been sitting here for 5 min trying to come up with a snarky comment, but the shear stupidity of this has rubbed off on me and I've got nothing.

  2. Before this ruling... by cvtan · · Score: 4, Funny

    an aluminum foil hat was enough. This guy is way ahead of the curve: http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01407/foil-car_1407008i.jpg

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  3. Re:Heh by stonewallred · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anyone with a lick of sense knows that lag in WoW is caused by Cheney contacting his dark slave Satan for his weekly updates via the web. Seems old Cheney is too cheap to buy a T1 line to hell.