Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Who's watching the watchmen?

New privacy fears as police could track your GPS without a warrant

The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether police use of GPS devices to track criminal suspects requires a judge's advance approval.
The case being argued Tuesday could have implications for other high-tech surveillance techniques in the digital age.
The Obama administration is appealing a ruling that threw out the drug conspiracy conviction of Antoine Jones of Washington because FBI agents and local police installed a GPS device on Jones' car and collected travel information without a search warrant.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2059001/New-privacy-fears-police-track-GPS-warrant.html#ixzz1d8G93c38

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