GPS - Warrant Needed
- The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that police cannot put a GPS device on a suspect's car to track his movements without a warrant, a test case that upholds basic privacy rights in the face of new surveillance technology.
The high court ruling was a defeat for the Obama administration, which had argued that a warrant was not required to use global positioning system devices to monitor a vehicle on public streets.
The justices unanimously upheld a precedent-setting ruling by a U.S. appeals court that the police must first obtain a warrant to use a GPS device for an extended period of time to covertly follow a suspect.
What if the police want to overtly follow a car on the public way for extended periods of time? Not the best use of resources we suppose, but restricted by the law?
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
28 Comments:
So, then OnStar is Illegal, Right?
started to read the opinion... but got bored.
The Feds did get a warrant for the GPS, but installed it outside the boundaries set by the court
Got bored after reading that a nightclub owner caught with kilos of cocaine, wire tap, guns, distribution/drug conspiracy etc.... will get cut loose because of some legal dance
same ol' court shit
Quote from the opinion:
"The Government obtained a search warrant permitting it to install a Global-Positioning-System (GPS) tracking device on a vehicle registered to respondent Jones’s wife. The warrant authorized installation in the District of Columbia and within 10 days, but agents installed the device on the 11th day and in Maryland. The Government then tracked the vehicle’s movements for 28 days."
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/10-1259.pdf
The Feds had a warrant for the GPS, but got caught up on technicalities-- when & where the device was installed. That resulted in non-compliance with the warrant, losing their case.
Take the Roach motels off the cars and disband the IPRA/IAD NAZI'S.
CCW NOW! MAKES IT SIMPLEST !
Let them run wild.No one except the POLICE gives a fuck. We are doomed trying to do pro active police work.They all cry when the beast is out of control but as soon as the police take action were in court. The whole system is backwards. Write a mover and get a bus check and go home.
We met with an ASA it requires a court order not a warrant. Similar to a grand jury sup>
Do not forget that the City can still GFPS all of it's property (cars, phones, equipment etc) legally. So, consider yourself stalked at work.
I, for one, am happy that this guy beat his case. It just goes to show you how incompetent the Feds are at times. I'm willing to bet the idiots knew EXACTLY what they were doing but they figured playing by the rules as set forth in the Constitution and existing case law and court rulings didnt apply to them. Too much college, not enough real world experience. Chalk up this fuck-up to Hair Gel Fed style.
Best Solution is Carry and Conceal law!
The police can't do nothing to protect anyone anymore!
Citizens need to protect their own 2nd Amendment Rights, of the U.S. Constitution!
I tell people all the time: get and learn to use a gun for your protection!
When U need the police, we are only minutes away i.e. 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, etc...
Da Pelon
Does that mean that they will no longer be used against an officer for not being in their assigned district????
"So, then OnStar is Illegal, Right?"
--1/26/2012 12:31:00 AM
I believe that's voluntary -- they don't sneak up your driveway at night and install it. >grin<
"So, then OnStar is Illegal, Right?" @ 12:31am Oh my God! A fine example of the retarded types that post far too often on this site and make this site appear irrelevant. Shaved really should try editing out a lot of the idiots wanting to post here. What a moron 12:31 is!!
LOL, just realized I was on SCC's site not Shaved's. This post was so stupid at 12:31 that I ASSumed. Sorry SCC, you do run a much cleaner show here. Keep it up.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Take the Roach motels off the cars and disband the IPRA/IAD NAZI'S.
CCW NOW! MAKES IT SIMPLEST !
1/26/2012 05:07:00 AM
Agreed!
So, then OnStar is Illegal, Right?
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Only if used by an agent of a governmental entity. As it should be.
Government agents should not be snooping on private citizens without good cause and independant oversight from the courts.
Again, take the rights and drime fighting tools away from the police. It keeps getting harder and harder to do your job and combat crime. In my opinion, with all the restrictions this department lays on us and our broken and embarrassing cook county judicial system, I belive we have lost gentlemen.
LOL... people were up in arms over the patriot act, which clearly targeted specific individuals, yet narrry a whimper when Barry wants to track all of us in our personal cars
Why bother.....throw in the towel already.
" started to read the opinion... but got bored.
The Feds did get a warrant for the GPS, but installed it outside the boundaries set by the court
Got bored after reading that a nightclub owner caught with kilos of cocaine, wire tap, guns, distribution/drug conspiracy etc.... will get cut loose because of some legal dance
same ol' court shit"
Welcome to our world ...
--26th St. ASA
Good. If they had their way cars would be built with GPS. Government has the power to follow anyone but doesn't have the resources to follow everyone. They got this one right.
Does ruling this affect the use of such devices during IAD investigations involving residency? Because they have used them in the past (and probably still do).
read the decision.... It will also cover the GPS on phones!!!!!
This country has defenitley gone to the criminals. Maybe in my next life ill comeback as a piece of shit drug dealing fuck and live of the fucking government. God bless America
Speaking of rights and the constitution have you seen the "treaty" the president signed in October? You better read this.
http://www.infowars.com/obama-signs-global-internet-treaty-worse-than-sopa/
Does ruling this affect the use of such devices during IAD investigations involving residency? Because they have used them in the past (and probably still do).
1/26/2012 04:38:00 PM
Why bother? There's so much info on the net, gps isn't needed. You buy a house, there are three sites that report it. Your kid makes three goals at a suburban high school game, it's reported. Your spouse runs a 5k in your suburb, it's online.
Live in the suburbs, take your chances. Accept the fact you will lose your livelihood if you're caught. If you're okay with that, go for it. No gps needed, though; it's pretty much passe.
So, then OnStar is Illegal, Right?
1/26/2012 12:31:00 AM
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what kind of stupid fucker would post this stupid shit? Go away
For the record, they did not rule that using a GPS tracker requires a warrant, they ruled that it constitutes a search under the 4th amendment.....
We should applaud this ruling. Big Brother knows enough. We'll get the bad guys as most are too dumb not to get caught.
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