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March 19, 2013 08:29 pm GMT

DOJ Still Arguing It Doesn't Need Warrant To Track You With GPS

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A new appellate case could further clarify just when the government is required to get a warrant before tracking suspects with GPS technology.

It's been more than a year since a Supreme Court decision established that affixing a GPS tracking device to a vehicle constitutes a "search" under the constitution.

In the now-famous U.S. v. Jones case of 2011, the Supreme Court ruled (PDF) tracking via GPS was to be considered a "search," in accordance with the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures. The caveat in the decision — which some dubbed as the most important Fourth Amendment case of the computer age — is that the justices stopped short of clearly saying that the feds always need a warrant when "searching" you with a GPS tracker


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