Wisconsin police can attach GPS to cars to secretly track anybody's movements without obtaining search warrants, an appeals court ruled Thursday. [More]Hey, just keeping tabs on the livestock. And wait 'til Wisconsin Tommy starts implanting these in your forehead.
Besides, if you're not doing anything wrong, what have you got to hide?
And if you can't trust Wisconsin "Only Ones," who can you trust?
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1W broadband GPS jammers that you plug into your vehicle's cigarette lighter and reach 10-20 feet can be had for a reasonable sum.
Of course, possession of a jammer will be a crime. Hey, don't worry though - the .gov is looking out for us!
Give it time ... all cars will be be tracked by GPS. Courts will rule that the government is not spying on YOU, they are simply spying on YOUR CAR for your own protection.
I need a drink ... is that still legal?
Remember, suspected daughter-killer Casey Anthony's cell phone allowed her movements of months ago to be tracked hour-by-hour.
Wisconsin must be worried about its people reacting badly to police ignoring their rights and tackling them in their own yards and stuff.
Hey, Junior, take my car and you and your girlfriend go to dinner. And a movie. Take your time. I'll drive yours...
Jon--what about something that detects the GPS device? You could then "relocate" it.
The other door this opens is placing your own on the personal vehicles of those who feel free to do this to yours.
You know I don’t understand why this horrible decision has not been use on those that choose to oppress the rights of the people.
Start putting GPS devices on cop cars, judge’s cars, the teen children and wife of the judge. Use the technology on them and let’s see how they like it.
Because the police and the judge’s wife have no reasonable expectoration of privacy.
It's certainly irritating, but there shouldn't be any Constitutional issue with following you or tracking your movements in some way. It's neither a search nor a seizure.
It's simply a tool that any stalker could use and so can the police. It's just another investigative tool that they'll have that they can abuse.
I think it's an issue for the legislature to take up. Or to be left unregulated and able to be used by police and private citizens alike. It might be fun to put one on the mayor's vehicle or something.
oh what fun! to place a unit on a politician's car - judge, attorney general, chief of police etc.
then tracking in real time with google.
hehe - where's waldo now?
Ham radio operators already do this willingly with a system called APRS, which is a subset of packet radio. Although they only put the transmitters on their own cars, not someone else's.
Our society is not meant to have the police do what they want because they want to until a court rules they can't. It's meant for the police to come, hat in hand, and ask permission to CONSIDER doing anything questionable. Anything.
That BS about "It's better to beg forgiveness than ask permission" is fine -- within reason -- for soldiers in a war zone when the chain of command is out of contact. Not here at home.
On the other hand, we and the police may be at war and only one side is aware of it as yet.
When the feds got the OK for warrantless wiretaps and secret searches to see if there WAS evidence enough to SEEK a warrant, this could not have been far behind.
I hope I live to see the day when the POLICE have nothing to hide.
I wonder if what's good for the goose is good for the gander? Any bets as to whether the courts would uphold an average, non-"only one" placing tracking devices on government vehicles?
Oh c'mon Ned, they don't even support an officer being taped in public doing public duty on the public's dime. You just know they would want to have them live under the same rules as the rest of us regarding big brother watching you.
I can see this being used against "suspected" gun-traffickers.
Ironically, cops who do this are "stalking" as well.
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