The Supreme Court said Monday that law enforcement authorities might
need a probable-cause warrant from a judge to affix a GPS device to a
vehicle and monitor its every move — but the justices did not say that a
warrant was needed in all cases.
The convoluted decision (.pdf)
in what is arguably the biggest Fourth Amendment case in the computer
age, rejected the Obama administration’s position that attaching a GPS
device to a vehicle was not a search. The government had told the high
court that it could even affix GPS devices on the vehicles of all
members of the Supreme Court, without a warrant.
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2 comments:
How does this affect the GPS trackers that the DNR now wants to put on watermen's boats?
How would you think it would affect it? Jesus.
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