No Warrant Needed for GPS Monitoring, Judge Rules
Ahh Panic, the government can track your every move! wait wait wait settle down a little. Yes this is scary, no doubt about it, but lets think about it for a second.
The government, has never needed a warrant to tail you? To follow you around all day and record you activities in a notebook, from a public place, has never required a warrant to my knowledge. In fact anyone can do it, not just the government.
The same law that allows me to take photos of people, objects and events in a public place, allows anyone, the government included to do the same thing.
Now if you didn’t click through to the article, let me summarize. The police attached a GPS tracker to a car via a magnet, no damage was done, they didn’t invade use cell phone gps or carrier tracking, they just attched a tracking bug to a car.
This let the cops tail the suspect with out going through the cost to taxpayers or the environment of driving around following the guy for several days.
This is a good thing, it’s greener, and police could be solving crimes, writing tickets, or whatever it is they are normally paid to do while the little GPS tracker did it’s thing.
Normally I am one of the first to shoult invasion of privacy, especially when the government is involved, but in this case they aren’t invading anyone’s privacy, they just track a cars location as it used public roadways. They did it in an economical, and environmentally friendly fashion.
Oh and they caught someone stealing taxpayer dollars from the City of St. Louis.
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