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LandAirSea System’s SilverCloud Receives High Marks

PoliceOne Senior Editor Doug Wyllie took some time during the Christmas holidays to test out LandAirSea’s SilverCloud real-time GPS tracking system.

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We Want to Hear What You Think

In light of the Supreme Court’s recent landmark decision on the warrantless use of GPS tracking devices by law enforcement officials, we want invite you to participate in our online poll and share some of your thoughts on this crucial issue of privacy and how it relates to GPS technology.

You can fill out our online poll by clicking here.

Description of Giveaway:

LandAirSea Systems, Inc., a pioneer in the development of GPS-based tracking systems, invites you to participate in our “GPS Tracking Key Giveaway.” The GPS Tracking Key is a pocket-sized, passive GPS data logger that has the ability to record the precise GPS location of a vehicle or an asset every second with an accuracy of 2.5 meters. The GPS Tracking Key, LandAirSea System’s bestselling vehicle tracking device to date, normally sells for $229.

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Tell Us What You Think 

In light of the Supreme Court’s recent landmark decision on the warrantless use of GPS tracking devices by law enforcement officials, we want to hear some of your thoughts on this issue.

Please take a moment to fill out our poll by clicking here.

For more information on the Supreme Court’s decision on GPS tracking and warrantless tracking, click here.

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Supreme Court Mandates Warranted GPS Tracking

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that law enforcement officials violated the Constitutional rights of suspected cocaine dealer, Antoine Jones, when they attached a GPS tracking device on his Jeep without a search warrant. The data obtained from the GPS tracker was used to convict Jones of possession of narcotics with the intent to distribute, which was later overturned in a federal appeals court.

District of Columbia police and FBI agents watched Jones, a nightclub owner, for months with an array of surveillance techniques, including tapping his cellphone under a warrant from a federal judge. Police had obtained a warrant for the District of Columbia, however, it expired before the GPS tracking device was installed in Maryland.

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The United States vs. Antoine Jones

On November 8, 2011, the Supreme Court listened and responded to oral arguments from both sides in a landmark case, which would have determined whether police and law enforcement agencies would be able to monitor suspected criminals with covert GPS tracking devices without having to obtain a warrant.

The case involved a suspected cocaine trafficker in the Washington, D.C. area, whose movements were monitored 24/7 over a 28 day period without a warrant by the FBI and local police investigators. Some of the information obtained from the GPS tracker was used to convict Antoine Jones of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, which was later overturned by a lower circuit appeals court.

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St. Louis Worker’s Time Sheets Questioned

Fred Robinson seemed to be the ideal employee. Every weekday that he worked in 2010 except one, the St. Louis City Treasurer’s Office employee started work at precisely 7:30 a.m., according to his time sheets. Robinson was hired by the Treasurer’s Office to drive around the city in order to look for broken parking meters and to fine illegally parked vehicles that hadn’t been ticketed.

However, FBI special agent, Monique Comeau, testified earlier this month that this wasn’t necessarily the case based on her investigation into Robinson’s actual work day. She usually found him leaving the house at roughly 9 a.m., spending a about an hour at a local diner, then driving between his second job as the head of a charter school and his third job, where Robinson was the process of establishing his own day care.

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How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

The classic fictional children’s story, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss, depicts a bitter, cave-dwelling creature named, The Grinch, who possessed a heart “two-sizes too small.” From his perch high atop Mount Crumpit, the grumpy Grinch can hear the noisy Christmas festivities that take place in Whoville, home of the merry and warm-hearted Whos. Annoyed and unable to understand the Whos’ happiness, he makes plans to descend on the town in order to “prevent Christmas from coming” by stealing all the Christmas presents and decorations, and of course, all the Who-ham.

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High-Tech Cyber-Stalking in 2003

We recently discovered that one of LandAirSea’s GPS tracking devices was featured on NBC’s Today Show on February 2003. The story involved a man by the name of Paul Seidler, who used a GPS tacker to secretly monitor her ex-girlfriend, Connie Adams.

For weeks, when Connie Adams drove her car she knew it wouldn’t be long before her ex-boyfriend showed up. He’d pop up when she was on dates. He’d be outside the cafe where she went for her morning cup of coffee before work. He’d track her down at restaurants she had never visited before.

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GPS Tracking Device Used to Monitor Government Employee

A New York appeals court ruled in favor of the state in its use of a GPS tracking device on a government employee’s private car. The tracking device was placed on former Labor Department director of staff and organizational development, Michael Cunningham, to investigate whether he was skipping work and falsifying time sheets.

In 2008, the Labor Department suspected that Cunningham, a 20 year veteran of the department, was “taking unauthorized absences from work as well as falsifying time records,” according to the decision. The department “had an investigator attempt to tail” Mr. Cunningham when he left his office during work hours, but “the effort was thwarted” when he realized he was being followed, the court wrote.

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Rethinking the Issue of Privacy in a Technologically Advanced World

The rapid advancement of technological tools has changed the manner in which information flows out to the public, how people communicate with one another, and even the meaning of the word “friend,” which has now become a verb – “I friended you…” Teens today prefer texting over actual voice conversations. Through social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, we can now publicly broadcast our personal information to hundreds, if not thousands of people, instantly with a click of  button.

Technology has indeed gained a tremendous amount of traction over the past ten years, especially with the accessibility offered to us through the power of the Internet. And not only has technology advanced in rapid fashion, it may potentially gain enough weight and power to rewrite our constitutional protections.

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