Student Sues FBI For Planting GPS Tracker

Posted by timothy on Friday March 4, 2011 @01:00AM 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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Re:So who is he really? by iamhassi · 2011-03-04 02:20 · Score: 1, Troll

the vast majority of the KKK are normal people that just happen to believe something differently than you do.

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Re:Expectation of Privacy on Public Roads by TheGratefulNet · 2011-03-04 02:36 · Score: 1, Troll

ok, smart ass. you think there is no privacy in public.
so lets see you tape a video exchange between yourself and a cop. go to a federal building and tape something there.
follow a cop around and just tail him. its public ground. its free, right?
btw, you are an idiot.

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