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Senator Introduces Bill To Stop Warrantless GPS Tracking

Posted by Soulskill on from the location-location-location dept.

bs0d3 writes "Right now the police and FBI are able to use GPS tracking devices, stingrays, and other tracking technologies without a warrant. They can read your personal emails without a warrant, they can recall your phone call history, all without a warrant. These are clear violations of the fourth amendment, but time and time again the courts are ruling that the fourth amendment doesn't protect people who use modern technology. This week Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR), Mark Kirk (R-IL), and Jason Chaffetz (D-UT) announced a bill with bipartisan support called the Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act. It provides sorely needed legal clarity for the use of electronically-obtained location data that can be used to track and log the location and movements of individual Americans. The G.P.S. Act is supported by the American Civil Liberties Union, Americans for Tax Reform, Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Constitution Project, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The full text of the bill can be read online."

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  1. Ron Wyden is always involved in these things by mykos · · Score: 4, Informative

    Seems like every time something good happens for people's rights, Ron Wyden is always there getting it started. Can't we just clone him and replace the entire senate?

    1. Re:Ron Wyden is always involved in these things by DanTheStone · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Best comment I've seen about him yet (from an anonymous commenter on another site):

      "I'd like to order a couple of Wydens for my state, is Oregon going to be making any more or do you guys want the monopoly on politicians with heads outside their asses?"

    2. Re:Ron Wyden is always involved in these things by mykos · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I would vote for a hundred senators who run mudslinging campaigns but still do their jobs well than to continually elect citizen haters who blow rainbows up my ass every six years.

  2. Jason Chaffetz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Jason is not a D-UT he is a R-UT. Please fix the post and do a little fact checking next time...