{"id":27041,"date":"2012-01-24T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=27041"},"modified":"2012-01-24T11:07:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T18:07:08","slug":"supreme-court-rules-against-unauthorized-use-of-gps-tracking-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/01\/24\/supreme-court-rules-against-unauthorized-use-of-gps-tracking-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Rules Against Unauthorized Use of GPS Tracking Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-012412\/2012_01_24_buttar.MP3\">this segment<\/a>  | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-012412\/2012_01_24_uprising.mp3\"> entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/scotus_gps.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>In a decision announced yesterday, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that GPS tracking devices placed on vehicles by law enforcement during surveillance operations must be treated as a type of search, regulated under the 4th amendment.  In the case United States v Jones, FBI agents kept Washington DC nightclub owner Antoine Jones under surveillance for months, watching as he crossed from DC to Maryland and back. In addition to using other tracking methods, the FBI followed Jones&#8217; movements for 28 days via a surreptitiously placed GPS device on his car. The FBI operation led to the seizure of 100 kilograms of cocaine and $1 million dollars linked to Jones, as well as to his arrest and conviction.  However a Colombia Appeals court overturned the conviction on the grounds that the government conducted an unreasonable search. The Supreme Court upheld the overturned conviction but on different grounds, and split somewhat on the reasoning. The Department of Justice had argued that use of a GPS device did not rise to the level of a 4th amendment issue because citizens do not have a reasonable expectation to privacy on public streets. The nine Justices disagreed, ruling, \u201c[w]e hold that the government\u2019s installation of a GPS device on a target\u2019s vehicle, and its use of that device to monitor the vehicle\u2019s movements, constitutes a \u2018search.\u2019&#8221; They found that placing a GPS device on a vehicle constituted a trespass of a suspect&#8217;s private property. The decision is being widely interpreted as a warning to law enforcement to obtain warrants for both installing and tracking GPS devices. Writing for the SCOTUS blog, Tom Goldstein says the Justices split 5-4 on whether the use of a GPS tracker over extended periods of time by police also violates a suspects &#8220;reasonable expectation to privacy&#8221; or constitutes an unreasonable search. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Shahid Buttar, Executive Director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bordc.org\">www.bordc.org<\/a> for more information about the Bill of Rights Defense Committee. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to this segment | entire program In a decision announced yesterday, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that GPS tracking devices placed on vehicles by law enforcement during surveillance operations must be treated as a type of search, regulated under the 4th amendment. In the case United States v Jones, FBI agents kept Washington DC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}