Gov't Has Legal Right To Track You Via GPS

Creative Minority Report ^ | 8/26/2010 | Patrick Archibold

[MtnClimber]

And so it seems it is also legal for everyone. Want to know where to find your treasonous ‘Critters and Sin-ators, plant a GPS on their car and find them when you want to.

[Jack Hydrazine]

And you do not have the right to prevent them from spying on you.

[NoLibZone]

Simply put an I hate AZ, Rainbow sticker on your car.

They will not track other Union members.

[NoLibZone]

A business opportunity:

Plant GPS’s on LEO vehicles when parked in public areas.

Offer a site that tells members where each LEO vehicle in your city/county is!

[Squantos]

Lifehacker.com has a story on jammers for this issue.....

Legality aside they are for sale.

Jammer world is also selling such.

[OldMissileer]

Before the left planted the communist Kagan on the bench I would have said that this is just another 9th “Circus” ruling that would get overturned; but now.......

[stuartcr]

They could just as easily wait until you parked in a public place, and then put the device on your car.

The 4th doesn’t really address tracking or trailing someone, which is what the GPS device is doing. It doesn’t search or seize anything. It’s essentially just following someone electronically.

[American Constitutionalist]

I guess they have thrown out the term “ NO TRESPASSING “ ... because, how will they be able to enforce no trespassing laws when they can come into your own private property without your consent, place a GPS on your car, in which is private property ?
I wonder if they can be challenged in court with carjacking laws ? invasion of privacy laws ? vandalism laws ?

[JRandomFreeper]

Governments don't have rights. They have powers.

Powers that are limited by the Constitution. Powers that come from the people.

People have rights. Those rights are from God. The Constitution enumerates some of them.

/johnny

[EternalVigilance]

The 4th doesn’t really address tracking or trailing someone, which is what the GPS device is doing. It doesn’t search or seize anything. It’s essentially just following someone electronically.

Which hardly qualifies as being secure in your person.

[JRandomFreeper]

You have it upside down.

What, in the Constitution gives the government explicit power to track anyone?

The 4th amendment is a partial enumeration of the rights of the people given by God.

If a power isn't given to government in the Constitution, they are forbidden to that power. That's why they rely on 'interstate commerce' and 'general welfare'. Two terms that are badly misused if you read the founders intent.

/johnny

[Cringing Negativism Network]

I see a (huge) commercial opportunity, in GPS detectors.

[stuartcr]

They could always plant it when the car is parked in a public place.

[stuartcr]

That’s true of course, to us. That’s the tricky part about the courts, people interpret things differently. It could probably be argued that the tracking device was for protective purposes.

[stuartcr]

I’m not a judge, my opinion means nothing, and I don’t like it anymore than others here. I’m just presenting a different point of view. Perhaps the tracking could be interpreted as protection? Maybe it could be considered the same as stop light cameras, only for individual vehicles and mobile. Maybe for traffic safety and control?

[JRandomFreeper]

It could probably be argued that the tracking device was for protective purposes.

The Supremes have ruled that there is no obligation on government to protect any individual.

You miss the big picture. God gave people rights. People gave government limited powers.

When that government exceeds those powers, the government must be abolished or changed by the people.

/johnny

[I am bigjohn]

What’s the legal difference between tracking and stalking?

[Political Junkie Too]

Do they have the right to track two suspected gay men (perhaps one being a politician) into a bedroom? I thought the Supreme Court already found that what goes on in the bedroom is private.

I guess the loophole is that traveling to the bedroom is not private, but once there anything goes.

That doesn't surprise me since this is the same crew that says, crossing the border without permission is illegal, but once there, anything goes.

-PJ

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Evidently the technology already exists to (1) detect, (2) jam and/or (3) spoof GPS.

Look for those offering such products, to make windfall profits.

Detectors would tip off the subject - would be a shame if an expensive GPS tracking unit fell off and was stolen.