THE SUPREME COURT this week rapped the knuckles of the Obama administration for arguing that law enforcement officers did not need a court order before slapping a Global Positioning System (GPS) device on a suspect’s car and then tracking him around the clock for weeks on end. It was a welcome decision, as far as it went — which was not far enough. Read full article >>
Earlier this week the Supreme Court ruled that the police must get a warrant to track an individual's car using a GPS device -- a step forward in protecting your privacy. Then Google announced changes to its policies that seemed to take two steps back.
On January 23 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that law enforcement authorities do not generally have a right to affix a GPS tracking device to a suspect's car without first obtaining a valid warrant. Of the many things that can be said about the case, which has been called the most important Fourth Amendment test in a decade , perhaps the most sobering in the long run will be this: the ...
You might not be suspected of trafficking cocaine and your car might not have a warrantless GPS placed in it by police. But the legal issues raised by the Supreme Court matter for everything you do online (and off). When discussing constitutional law, it's become a cliché to mention how the founding fathers didn't have newfangled modern technologies. GPS systems, computers, atomic bombs... none ...
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Is your privacy on the line when you're in your car? You betcha. The Constitution and current Supreme Court are protecting you now.
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