Repeater
Regular Member
This is a serious breach of freedom.
This could give the green light to allow GPS tracking on vehicle outside gun shows -- the excuse being policing gun trafficking.
This case involves the Fairfax Police -- imagine what they can do now:
This could give the green light to allow GPS tracking on vehicle outside gun shows -- the excuse being policing gun trafficking.
This case involves the Fairfax Police -- imagine what they can do now:
Based on all the information that they had collected, the police decided to monitor appellant’s movements by attaching a GPS system to one of his vehicles. The police did not obtain a warrant.
On February 1, 2008, the Fairfax County police attached a GPS system to appellant’s work van, which was parked on the street in front of appellant’s home. The GPS system used three satellites to give the police information on the van’s location. The GPS device itself operated on an independent battery and, therefore, did not draw any power from the van. To install the GPS device, an officer “reached [his] hand sort of underneath the bumper to a place that is not observable [from] the public street.” The bumper on the van was “a long tube” with plastic ends and holes in it. The GPS device was attached to the left side of the rear bumper using a magnet and “a sticky substance.”