We need more rulings like this one. And everyone should destroy these devices if you find one on your car.
By Robert Barnes, Published: January 23
The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously restricted the police’s ability to use a GPS device to track criminal suspects in a first test of how privacy rights will be protected in the digital age.
The court rejected the government’s view that long-term surveillance of a suspect by GPS tracking is no different than traditional, low-tech forms of monitoring. But its decision was nuanced and incremental, leaving open the larger questions of how government may use the information generated by modern technology for surveillance purposes.
Supreme Court limits police use of GPS tracking - The Washington Post
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