SCOTUS hearing arguments on warrantless GPS tracking on cars

[thewayne]

The Feds want unfettered access, claiming that "...a person has no reasonable expectation of privacy in his movements from one place to another...". I believe that there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in public, in that, if I overhear an adult talking about having sex with a 14 year old, I'll notify the police. I expect that I'll probably have my picture taken without my knowledge when I'm in public or in a store. But there's no need for the government knowing where I'm driving to and from WITHOUT A WARRANT AND PROBABLE CAUSE.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/11/gps-tracking-flourishes/all/1


Roger Easton, the principal inventor of GPS technology, is urging the Supreme Court to not allow such warrantless tracking. "Easton, now 90 and the principal inventor and developer of the Timation Satellite Navigation System at the Naval Research Laboratory more than five decades ago, and the others are telling the high court that its precedent on the topic is outdated, and the government’s reliance on it should be rejected." The case in question involves an appeal by a drug dealer whose movements were tracked without a warrant, whenever he stopped somewhere that could potentially be a cache, the cops got a warrant to search that site for drugs.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/10/gps-inventor-surveillance/


This is not good. Our location is already constantly monitored by our cell phones, I think the FBI needs to step up their investigations a notch and follow the laws that everyone else has to follow.

Comments

[silveradept]

Well, once the FISA courts were basically instructed to ignore the rules regarding probable cause for warrants, it's no surprise every other court seems ready to follow suit.

Including, I fear, the Roberts Supreme Court.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Julia Roberts is on the Supreme Court? Or did you mistype Robots?

I think maybe I should go to bed.

[silveradept]

Bed sounds good, and maybe in the morning, you'll remember it's John Roberts who sits in the head seat, appointed there by the previous administrator.