Jay Neff

Wisconsin court upholds GPS tracking by police →

MADISON, Wis. -

• Wisconsin police can attach GPS to cars to secretly track anybody’s movements without obtaining search warrants, an appeals court ruled Thursday.

• As the law currently stands, the court said police can mount GPS on cars to track people without violating their constitutional rights — even if the drivers aren’t suspects.

• Officers do not need to get warrants beforehand because GPS tracking does not involve a search or a seizure, Judge Paul Lundsten wrote for the unanimous three-judge panel based in Madison. That means “police are seemingly free to secretly track anyone’s public movements with a GPS device,” he wrote.
  

• Larry Dupuis, legal director of the ACLU of Wisconsin, said using GPS to track someone’s car goes beyond observing them in public and should require a warrant. “The idea that you can go and attach anything you want to somebody else’s property without any court supervision, that’s wrong,” he said. “Without a warrant, they can do this on anybody they want.”

Links:

Chicago Tribune

Court of Appeals Decision - Case Number 2008AP658-CR

Fourth Amendment is not implicated by tracking

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=US+Knotts+Karo

Conversations:

http://digg.com/politics/Wisconsin_court_upholds_GPS_tracking_by_police

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/8jc03/apparently_wisconson_police_now_have_the_ability/

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/10/1549252

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/wisconsin-appeals-court-upholds-warrantless-gps-spying/

http://news.google.com/news?q=wisconsin%20%2B%20gps

Wisconsin court upholds GPS tracking by police - Chicago Tribune Topix

Wisconsin court upholds GPS tracking by police - Topix

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http://cyb3rcrim3.blogspot.com/2007/09/gps-detectors-jammers-spoofers.html

http://www.navigadget.com/index.php/2007/01/29/gps-and-gsm-jammer

http://www.losangeles.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=5325

http://policechiefmagazine.org/magazine/index.cfm?fuseaction=display_arch&article_id=179&issue_id=12004

http://www.patc.com/enewsletter/legal-answers/4-oct08.shtml

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PetSafe GPS Locator Put To The Test

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Zoombak GPS Dog Locator - SMS Email Safety Zone Alerts

GPS Fun, Open Source, & DIY:

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