Battle Brews Over FBI's Warrantless GPS Tracking 259
fysdt writes "The FBI's use of GPS vehicle tracking devices is becoming a contentious privacy issue in the courts, with the Obama administration seeking Supreme Court approval for its use of the devices without a warrant, and a federal civil rights lawsuit targeting the Justice Department for tracking the movements of an Arab-American student. In the midst of this legal controversy, Threat Level decided to take a look at the inside of one of the devices, with the help of the teardown artists at iFixit."
Re:so (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:so (Score:4, Interesting)
No need to do that, just watch the video feed [theregister.co.uk] from the cop cars instead. Although I suspect in the USA, either could probably get you a jail term.
Re:Oppression, not violation of privacy (Score:5, Interesting)
Be glad you can even do something about it. In the UK all vehicles are tracked all the time by automatic numberplate recognition using images from traffic cameras. They don't have them quite everywhere yet but they are working on that.
It seems that it is easier to get away with oppression if you do it to everyone all the time. The FBI's mistake was to target individuals.