Supreme Court: GPS Tracking Is Illegal Without Warrant
If you're a cop and want to use a GPS device to track a suspect, you better have a warrant, the Supreme Court said Monday.
GPS Devices Are Being Used to Track Cars and Errant Spouses
Sales of GPS tracking devices, for a variety of largely unregulated uses, are growing fast, raising new questions about privacy and testing a legal system that has not kept pace with technology.
GPS Devices Used to Track Cars and Errant Spouses
Sales of GPS tracking devices, for a variety of largely unregulated uses, are growing fast, raising new questions about privacy and testing a legal system that has not kept pace with technology.
Warrant needed for GPS tracking, high court says
In a rare defeat for law enforcement, the Supreme Court unanimously agreed on Monday to bar police from installing GPS technology to track suspects without first getting a judge's approval. The justices made clear it wouldn't be their final word on increasingly advanced high-tech surveillance of Americans.
Scalia Finds 18th-Century Precedent For GPS Search
A decision on GPS tracking relies on 18th-century property law and splits the conservative majority.
Police need warrant for GPS tracking: court
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that police cannot put a GPS device on a suspect's car to track his movements without a warrant, a test case that upholds basic privacy rights in the face of new surveillance technology. The high court ruling was a defeat for the Obama administration, which had argued that a warrant was not required to use global positioning system devices ...
High court: warrant needed for GPS tracking
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that police must get a search warrant before using GPS technology to track criminal suspects.The decision was a defeat for the government and police agencies, ...
GPS Tracking In Texas
GPS technology can be used for everything from helping drivers to get where their going, to helping police crack down on crime.
Today's e-Reads: Do-It-Yourself GPS Tracking, And Cyber Investigators Face Retaliation
Cheap GPS devices are making tracking easy for anyone, The New York Times reports. And an op-ed in the paper details the conflict between new technologies like GPS and the Fourth Amendment.
SVN-49 GPS Satellite to Broadcast on L-Band
GPS satellite SVN-49 will begin transmitting an L-band signal on Wednesday, February 1, reports Rick Hamilton, executive secretariat of the Civil Global Positioning System Service Interface Committee (CGSIC). The transmission is part of a "quest to explore options to bringing SVN-49 back to healthy."
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