Cops Can GPS You Without Warrant

[tmarket]

Quote from Ricter:

Maybe I misread the article, but it was a car in someone's driveway that got the device. ...

No, you are right. Law enforcement may have a problem justifying attaching a tracker while the vehicle is in private property, but any place public is fair game, I think.

 

[tmarket]

Quote from BSAM:

Here is my message to you:

Ear ouy a stmocuinm, a poed ksomre, ro vahe ouy ypmlis tlso ouyr dimn?

It is not about me, I won't be putting any trackers on your car. Btw, J Edgar Hoover would have love this ruling, and he was a staunch anticommunist. So your analysis is flawed.

 

[tmarket]

After reviewing Kyllo v. US, I think this ruling allowing law enforcement to GPS track a suspect without warrant may be overturned should it get to the supreme court. It will depend on the location and target of the GPS tracking is initiated, whether on private or public property :

Kyllo v. United States, 533 U.S. 27 (2001), held that the use of a thermal imaging device from a public vantage point to monitor the radiation of heat from a person's home was a "search" within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment, and thus required a warrant. Because the police in this case did not have a warrant, the Court reversed Kyllo's conviction for growing marijuana.