Supreme Court Rules Warrants Needed for GPS Monitoring

Supreme Court Rules Warrants Needed for GPS Monitoring 354

Posted by samzenpus on Monday January 23, 2012 @01:59PM from the get-your-paperwork-in-order dept.

gambit3 writes "The Supreme Court has issued its ruling in the case of Washington, D.C. nightclub owner Antoine Jones, saying police must get a search warrant before using GPS technology to track criminal suspects. A federal appeals court in Washington overturned his drug conspiracy conviction because police did not have a warrant when they installed a GPS device on his vehicle and then tracked his movements for a month."

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Re:Ruling..... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday January 23, 2012 @02:05PM (#38794233)

Quick someone call the CDC! We have a sudden outbreak of common sense in the Capitol!

Re:Ruling..... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday January 23, 2012 @02:13PM (#38794417)

Quick someone call the CDC! We have a sudden outbreak of common sense in the Capitol!
I tried but all I heard on the other end of the line sounded like moaning zombies and muffled screams.

He's lucky... (Score:5, Funny)

by wealthychef ( 584778 ) writes: on Monday January 23, 2012 @02:20PM (#38794577)

.. he wasn't trafficking in pirated movies, or the judge would have been merciless.

Re:Ruling..... (Score:5, Funny)

by Baloroth ( 2370816 ) writes: on Monday January 23, 2012 @02:50PM (#38795167)

I tried but all I heard on the other end of the line sounded like moaning zombies and muffled screams.
Are you sure you called the CDC and not Congress?

Offtopic: Spoofed GPS signals? (Score:4, Funny)

by Dr. Manhattan ( 29720 ) writes: <(moc.liamg) (ta) (171rorecros)> on Monday January 23, 2012 @03:39PM (#38795959) Homepage

How feasible would it be to build a 'GPS faker' that could feed false data to such a tracking device? It'd be fun to see what they made of a car that apparently levitated, flew across the Pacific ocean at Mach 3, then returned to its starting point...

Whaaa? (Score:2, Funny)

by Greyfox ( 87712 ) writes: on Monday January 23, 2012 @04:23PM (#38796593) Homepage Journal

What the hell is THIS? A sudden outbreak of common sense? Now?! And unanimous at that? Those fuckers never agree on ANYTHING! At the very least, Scalia's going to write some dickish dissent! Unless... Oh... My... God! The Mayans were RIGHT! This is just a sign of the coming apocalypse! Better start selling your stocks and emptying your wine cellars now, kids, for the end times must be upon us!
Yeah yeah, fine. I'm sure it's not the end times. I'm sure there's some more reasonable explanation. Like... Ooh I know! Someone kidnapped all the justices and left... CYLONS... in their place! Yes. I'm sure that's it...

Re:Ruling..... (Score:5, Funny)

by rahvin112 ( 446269 ) writes: on Monday January 23, 2012 @05:06PM (#38797087)

There can't be zombies in the Capital, Zombies eat brains. Duh.

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He's lucky... (Score:5, Funny)

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Offtopic: Spoofed GPS signals? (Score:4, Funny)

Whaaa? (Score:2, Funny)

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