COPS NOW NEED WARRENT TO TRACK YOU WITH GPS BUG SAY'S SUPREME COURT
The decision is a setback for the Obama Administration, which had argued that the Constitution did not hinder its use of tracking technology to monitor vehicles traveling on public streets.
Law enforcement officials must obtain a court-authorized warrant before using a GPS device to track the movements of a vehicle, the US Supreme Court ruled on Monday, eliciting praise from privacy advocates. In a unanimous decision, the high court said Fourth Amendment guarantees against unreasonable searches prohibit police or federal agents from affixing a Global-Positioning-System (GPS) tracking device to a private vehicle and then recording the vehicle’s every movement 24 hours a day for weeks or months without prior court approval. We have entered a new and frightening age when advancing technology is erasing the Fourth Amendment,” said John Whitehead, president of the Virginia based non-profit Rutherford Institute, in a statement. “Thankfully,” he said, “the US Supreme Court has sent a resounding message to government officials – especially law enforcement officials – that there are limits to their powers.”
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