Tuesday, January 24, 2012

SUPREME COURT - Tracking With GPS Needs Warrant, Sometimes

"Want to Use a GPS-Tracking Device? Get a Warrant, Supreme Court Tells Police" PBS Newshour 1/23/2012

Excerpt

JEFFREY BROWN (Newshour): In 2005, police secretly attached a GPS device to a Jeep owned by Antoine Jones, a Washington, D.C., nightclub owner. Information gathered from tracking his movements eventually helped bring about his conviction for cocaine trafficking.

Today, though, the Supreme Court ruled the police action was a violation of the Constitution. The decision itself was unanimous, but the justices were divided in their reasoning, as they grappled with tricky issues of law, technology and privacy.

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