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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. If this is how privacy of a driveway is viewed.... by kenrblan · · Score: 1, Redundant

    If this is how privacy of a driveway is viewed by the court, it should also follow that a private citizen placing a tracking device on someone's vehicle is not trespassing or violating privacy. I suspect a certain Judge might end up with a GPS tracking device on his car. We need to know where our activist judges are going.

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  2. Re:Sauce for the goose by geekoid · · Score: 0, Redundant

    A perfect example of a strawman argument, well done.

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  3. Attach GPS transmitters to police cars by edfardos · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Since it's legal, what's the cheapest gps transmitter you can make that would attach to a police car. Knowing the location of your law enforcement officers at all times could be a huge public benefit - and now it's totally legal.
    Law enforcement tracking - there's an app for that!
    --edfardos