Police Can’t place a GPS tracking device on Vehicles without a Warrant.. This is great News..
All nine justices of the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that police officers violated the Fourth Amendment against unreasonable search and seizure when they attached a GPS device to a suspect's car and tracked it for 28 days without a warrant.
The case involved a suspected drug dealer. The feds got a warrant to track his car with a GPS device and then "installed a GPS tracking device on the undercarriage of the Jeep while it was parked in a public parking lot." But agents installed it a day after the warrant had expired and in a location not authorized by the warrant—making the surveillance warrantless. (The feds also had to access the Jeep again a couple weeks later in order to change the GPS tracker's battery "when the vehicle was parked in a different public lot in Maryland.")
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Three of the court's liberals signed a concurrence by Justice Alito, a conservative, that would have taken a stronger pro-privacy stance, holding that extended warrantless tracking itself violates the Fourth Amendment regardless of whether the government committed a trespass to accomplish it.
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