Ninth Circuit: Government can use GPS to track your moves

[defendandprotect]

Government can use GPS to track your moves

Adam Cohen - Wed 8/15

Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn't violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway — and no reasonable expectation that the government isn't tracking your movements.

That is the bizarre — and scary — rule that now applies in California and eight other Western states. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which covers this vast jurisdiction, recently decided the government can monitor you in this way virtually anytime it wants — with no need for a search warrant.
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http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2013150,00.html

[HALO141]

1. The 9th Circuit has had its collective head up its ass for decades. n/t

[mike r]

2. "1984 may have come a bit later than predicted, but it's here at last."

- dissenting conservative Chief Judge Kozinski.

[MadHound]

3. Well, first off, many, many people are tracked anyway, and they do so voluntarily,

Even buying the tracking device, their cell phone.

But the weirdness aside, we know damn well that this isn't going to be overturned by the SC, so we the people slip further and further into a police state. My suggestion, either park in your own locked garage, or if you don't have one, you can buy a device that you can use to scan your car and find these bugs. My suggestion, take it off and throw it in the back of the next dumpster you see.

[KansasVoter]

4. Does this mean I can put a GPS tracker on a police car?

[Jackpine Radical]

6. No. You can't take pictures of cops either.

Not even when they're taking pictures of you, which of course is entirely legal.

[Ezlivin]

5. Good thing that I keep my car in a locked garage

Maybe we're missing the opportunity this ruling provides us. And by "opportunity" I mean a "free-market entrepreneurial opportunity."

Someone could make GPS detectors for your car, perhaps something that mounted inside your car. Detector's green? You're good to go. Red? Time to do a little searching.