Law Enforcement and GPS Tracking
One New York judge said that GPS tracking devices collect only travel data, but that that sometimes one’s travels are of a personal nature.
“Disclosed in the data retrieved from the transmitting unit … will be trips the indisputably private nature of which takes little imagination to conjure: trips to the psychiatrist, the plastic surgeon, the abortion clinic, the AIDS treatment center, the strip club, the criminal defense attorney, the by-the-hour motel, the union meeting, the mosque, synagogue or church, the gay bar and on and on.”
Legal Precedent is Dated
Both courts used the legal precedent of a 1983 U.S. Supreme Court decision called U.S. versus Knotts. But that case, by now, was based on dated vehicle tracking technologies.
What the courts did agree on, was that, because of the potential for abuse, lawmakers need to pass legislation detailing how and when GPS tracking crosses the line.
Electronic recording devices have not had such a prominent place in public discussion forums since the 1972 Watergate scandal. Except now, bugs, tapes and beepers are replaced by micro/mini cams, digital imaging and memory cards.
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