Ah.
The St. Pete Times asks the age-old question.
Should authorities need a warrant to put a GPS tracking device on your car?
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"We do utilize GPS for investigations, and we do have a policy that addresses the usage," wrote Hillsborough sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Carter in an e-mail. "But we cannot release the policy due to the fact that it reveals investigative techniques."
Procedure that was actually upheld by the courts.
Enter Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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"The needs of law enforcement, to which my colleagues seem inclined to refuse nothing, are quickly making personal privacy a distant memory," he wrote in a widely read dissent.
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He wrote that there seems to be no limit to what technologies the government can use to violate privacy.
He noted that in 2009 a Sprint Nextel official revealed that the company gave its customers' cell phone locations to the government more than 8 million times that year. The company said that it was all done legally and that the number of customers affected was far less.
"By holding that this kind of surveillance doesn't impair an individual's reasonable expectation of privacy," wrote the judge, "the panel hands the government the power to track the movements of every one of us, every day of our lives. …
"There is something creepy and un-American about such clandestine and underhanded behavior."
Yep.
Could not have put it better myself.
While I'm off checking beneath my car, check out the commentary beneath the above article.
Priceless.
7 comments:
i knew if i looked i would find at least one, wait till they show up at their door and see what they say then D
I.C.S2pidppl wrote:
If you aren't suspected of criminal behavior, then you have nothing to worry about.
I saw that comment.
ics2pidppl is a cop. I told you ages back that the tampa/hillsborough fire dept/closely associated with corrupt leo was given gps tracking ability. I know that one was on my old car. And probably on this one I also know that they own every spytech shop around here (there were four now there's ONE a scary place w/scary freaky corrupt leo running it) where you can buy a device to jam the gps which is NOT illegal as the guy will lie and tell you. I know they had one on a car I owned years ago, too. I watched them put it on but had no idea what they were doing running up in our yard in the dark of night (I happened to be looking out an upstairs window) at the time my x was living in a home owned by a temple terrace cop now a private detective ... more to that story. BUT, suffice to say that the tampa firemen have access to these devices with no le powers. And, suffice to say that I am not charged with a crime nor being investigated ... everything I have said for the past three years is coming to light.
Thank you for all the help various people have given my subject.
There are few agencies more corrupt than David Gee's Hillsborough County Sheriffs. The Sheriff's Associations are closing in on people and setting up a
"regional" control policy unbeknownst to the public. Most of his men are thugs. More LEO have died here in the past five years than I can safely estimate. I'd say over 15. That is an indicator of the corruption killing off the good guys and the "investigations" are obvious fairytales with the usual FDLE or FBI rubber stamp if necessary. Amazing how many of them have died on the exact same route they take every day. hmmm. Do some reading on mark longway. VERY VERY obvious. They're in as much danger as the citizens and don't seem capable of taking charge and outing the corruption to make things safer for everyone.
Soon enough when you search google you will get "regional" results. It's easy to see that google is tampered with. And plays with the search results. Do ann experiment of driving from county to county and performing the exact same search. Brighthouse and Verizon and CompUsa employ MANY MANY ex and current cops. Just talk to people. The truth comes out.
Sunny they didn't need one of these on your car until recently.They had ready access to you through your family member. Now all bets are off. Don't trust those little detectors. There are other ways to circumvent their tactics.
It will take one huge lawsuit. It kinda makes me angry that this was posed as a Muslim thing. That's so far from the truth and a true red herring.
I wonder. Let's say I have a GPS device put on my car without a warrant, what happens if I find it and destroy it.
I don;t know who owns it, and certainly did not allow anyone to attach such a device to my property. SO if I destroy this device, would I be financially liable for destroying that device or any other device put on my car with out a warrant?
I wouldn't even think the warrant would come into it. finders keepers.
I wouldn't even destroy it. I'd attach it somewhere else. LMFAO !
Or deep six it.
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