GPS
Supreme Court Upholds 4th Amendment in GPS Tracker Case
Submitted by Scott Morgan on Mon, 01/23/2012 - 22:33
Today's ruling from the Supreme Court reminds us that the 4th Amendment is at least a little less dead than some have suggested:
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled unanimously that the police violated the Constitution when they placed a Global Positioning System tracking device on a suspect’s car and monitored its movements for 28 days.
A set of overlapping opinions in the case collectively suggested that a majority of the justices are prepared to apply broad privacy principles to bring the Fourth Amendment’s ban on unreasonable searches into the digital age, when law enforcement officials can gather extensive information without ever entering an individual’s home or vehicle. [NYT]
