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Student Sues FBI For Planting GPS Tracker

Posted by timothy on from the jiffy-lube-should-check-for-these-things-by-default dept.

GabriellaKat submits this snippet from Yahoo! news, writing "'Yasir Afifi, 20, says a mechanic doing an oil change on his car in October discovered the device stuck with magnets between his right rear wheel and exhaust. They weren't sure what it was, but Afifi had the mechanic remove it and a friend posted photos of it online to see whether anyone could identify it. Two days later, Afifi says, agents wearing bullet-proof vests pulled him over as he drove away from his apartment in San Jose, Calif., and demanded their property back.' Now he has decided to sue the FBI. This story was also covered last year when he found the tracking device."

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  1. The original Reddit post by Dayofswords · · Score: 5, Informative

    Reddit post:
    http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/dmh5s/does_this_mean_the_fbi_is_after_us/

    Images of device:
    http://imgur.com/OM6nE.jpg
    http://imgur.com/sspLU.jpg
    http://imgur.com/f4V2T.jpg
    http://imgur.com/srhrK.jpg

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  2. Re:So who is he really? by thisnamestoolong · · Score: 5, Informative

    He did not do that -- it was a friend of his. This means that if you say something stupid, but clearly non-threatening, on the Internet, that the FBI has a right to spy on everyone you know. That, to me, is an extremely troubling precedent to set.

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  3. Re:I would have just put in on a long distance sem by devent · · Score: 5, Informative

    I mean, what are they going to do to you?

    I don't know, like say you are a terrorist and a Unlawful combatant, as such you don't have any rights and put you in to Guatemala Bay prison, torture you there and release you after a few months. If he tries to sue, the Obama administration will pressure the courts to not hear the case and to drop the charges. Oh wait, that was the CIA, o.k. never mind.

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  4. Re:$200 fine by commandermonkey · · Score: 5, Informative

    Silly rabbit, laws are only for plebs, not people/goverment with money/power.

    The government will either go with:
    A) State secret and demand that its dismissed.
    B) State that the people who could defend it are too busy to go to court and their for it needs to be dismissed
    C) Get a retroactive FISA warrant.