Police cannot attach a Global Positioning System tracker ”Use of GPS tracking devices is a particularly intrusive method of Attaching a GPS device to a car is ”the equivalent of placing an invisible from the An interesting case out of Olympia, Washington. Police suspected William Bradley Jackson of the murder of his 9-year-old daughter, but had no evidence. So they planted a GPS tracker in his vehicle and followed it until it led them to … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/gpss.jpg\")
An interesting
\n case out of Olympia, Washington. Police suspected William Bradley Jackson of
\n the murder of his 9-year-old daughter, but had no evidence. So they
\n planted a GPS tracker in his vehicle and followed it until it led them
\n to the victim’s shallow grave. The police said this was the same
\n as following a suspect in an unmarked car. The court disagreed.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n to a suspect’s vehicle without a warrant, the Washington Supreme Court
\n declared yesterday in the first such ruling in the nation.<\/p>\n
\n surveillance, making it possible to acquire an enormous amount of personal
\n information about the citizen under circumstances where the individual
\n is unaware that every single vehicle trip taken and the duration of every
\n single stop may be recorded by the government,” Justice Barbara Madsen
\n wrote in the unanimous decision. She raised the prospect of citizens
\n being tracked to ”the strip club, the opera, the baseball game, the
\n `wrong’ side of town, the family planning
\n clinic, the labor rally.” <\/p>\n
\n police officer in a person’s back seat,” said Doug Honig, a spokesman
\n for the ACLU. <\/p>\n
\n Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"