Court Rejects Warrantless GPS Tracking 226
The EFF is trumpeting a victory in a case in which it and the ACLU filed an amicus brief. "The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit today firmly rejected government claims that federal agents have an unfettered right to install Global Positioning System (GPS) location-tracking devices on anyone's car without a search warrant. ... The court agreed that such round-the-clock surveillance required a search warrant based on probable cause. ...the court noted: 'When it comes to privacy... the whole may be more revealing than its parts.'"
Re:I'm still curious (Score:5, Funny)
If it wasn't secured to your car with duct tape, you can probably be pretty sure it wasn't done by the police.
Re:Nice one (Score:4, Funny)
Yes sir! Right away sir! I will start EFFing as soon as I see the opportunity sir!
Re:"government claims" (Score:3, Funny)
You know, that undefined blob of mental mass that you can blame everything on and assign as the cause and/or solution to all of yours and the world's problems.
You are just lining yourself up for a "Your Mom" joke, by the way.
Re:Way to block Bush and the Republicans (Score:5, Funny)
it's just a sopeana away.
Look, it's subpoena...or if you insist on using the Americanized form which is so ugly that most Americans don't even use it, subpena.
Sopeana sounds like a Mexican pastry.
Re:I'm still curious (Score:3, Funny)
What happens if you find such a device on your car? Sure, you can call the police because there's a suspicious item on your car (which may be dangerous!! what if it exploded?) but do you think they would say something like "oh no, that's ours!" -- or could they tell you to leave it there?
What happens when you run a packet dump and notice a government spyware program? whee! ...
I wouldn't report it, I'd attach it to the nearest taxi.
Re:So far so good. (Score:3, Funny)
If we don't track people, TERRORISTS will KIDNAP your KIDS and use DRUGS to turn them into GAY SUICIDE BOMBERS!
Or worse yet, they might share music. Oh, think of the artists! What will the poor artists do if we don't track people?