Secret GPS Tracking Now Legal In Massachusetts 277
dr. fuzz writes "The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has ruled in favor of John Law tracking you with secret GPS devices in Massachusetts provided a warrant is obtained. You've been warned. To the dissenters' credit, Justice Ralph Gants is quoted with 'Our constitutional analysis should focus on the privacy interest at risk from contemporaneous GPS monitoring, not simply the property interest.'"
Re:GPS Blocking (Score:5, Funny)
Manhattan, NY (Score:3, Funny)
Re:GPS Blocking (Score:3, Funny)
Re:How hard would it be to detect (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Where is the controversy? (Score:3, Funny)
And yet no Hitler? Bah ÂÂ...
Re:How hard would it be to detect (Score:4, Funny)
guess again, sales of Preparation H(tm) were up 8% in Massachusetts last month and nitrile gloves 10%. they probe and plant while you sleep
Mangled Ben Franklin Quote (Score:5, Funny)
It talks about police and wiretapping so we'll get plenty of paranoid theories and the resulting jokes. Plus we're guaranteed a mangled Ben Franklin quote.
Ooh, ooh, I got one!
"I am BEN FRANKLIN, master of SEX and VOODOO!"
I'm not sure if it's exactly relevant to this discussion, though...
Re:GPS Blocking (Score:1, Funny)
It would be much more fun to send singles to the GPS telling it you're in Australia or something.
Re:The cops need a warrant... where is the problem (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdot News Flash! If the cops obtain a warrant, they can do stuff they can't do otherwise!
Yeah, it's like when Pacman eats the big dot...
Re:Where is the controversy? (Score:3, Funny)
principal
rein in
over-zealous
FTFY. Everything else you said was so good, I couldn't stand to see egregious spelling errors. Oh, and, no, you can't skip the commas in your final parenthetical sentence ("...set off by an exclamation point, or by a comma when the feeling's not as strong" -- "Interjection", Grammar Rock).
Carry on.
Re:The cops need a warrant... where is the problem (Score:5, Funny)
Or if we use a car analogy, they could attach a gps tracker to your car while you aren't looking.
Re:Mangled Ben Franklin Quote (Score:5, Funny)
>> "I am BEN FRANKLIN, master of SEX and VOODOO!"
According to the latest Dan Brown book, you're probably correct.
Re:Where is the controversy? (Score:4, Funny)
Just because a person leaves a door open (whether a house or car) does not mean the government can enter the property without a warrant.
Sure it does. Don't you watch Law & Order?! 0.o