Supreme Court decided earlier this month that police officers violated the Fourth Amendment which protects citizens against unreasonable search and seizure. The law enforcement attached a GPS tracking device to a suspect’s vehicle and tracked it for a month without a warrant. Even though the ruling was unanimous the reasoning was split in two.
- some of the justices said it was a violation of reasonable expectation of privacy when the GPS device was physically attached to the vehicle
- other justices said a person has a reasonable expectations that the details of his movements over a month period should be private
What this ruling doesn’t touch is the tracking of your location by cell towers or other means which doesn’t involve any physical intervention.
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Supreme Court says warrentless GPS tracking is against 4th amendment
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