Supreme Court: police GPS device on car is a search

NexusFi · 2012-01-23T11:05:58-05:00

Reuters) - The Supreme Court for the first time ruled on Monday that police use of a GPS device to monitor a suspect's vehicle was a search and protected by constitutional privacy rights, a test case involving new surveillance technology. The high court's ruling was a defeat for the Obama administration, which defended the use of global positioning system devices without a warrant and without a person's knowledge as a legal way to monitor a vehicle on public streets. The court unanimously held …

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Supreme Court: police GPS device on car is a search

January 23rd, 2012, 11:05 AM	#1 (permalink)
kbit Aurora, Il USA Elite Member Experience: Advanced Platform: TradeStation Trading: futures Posts: 5,854 since Nov 2010 Thanks Given: 3,295 Thanks Received: 3,364	Reuters) - The Supreme Court for the first time ruled on Monday that police use of a GPS device to monitor a suspect's vehicle was a search and protected by constitutional privacy rights, a test case involving new surveillance technology. The high court's ruling was a defeat for the Obama administration, which defended the use of global positioning system devices without a warrant and without a person's knowledge as a legal way to monitor a vehicle on public streets. The court unanimously held that the government's attachment of the GPS device to a vehicle and its use of that device to monitor the vehicle's movement was a search and was covered by constitutional protections unreasonable searches and seizures of evidence. Supreme Court: police GPS device on [AUTOLINK]car[/AUTOLINK] is a search \| Reuters

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