The Government's New Right to Track Your Every Move With GPS

[Jazzy]

Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn't violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway - and no reasonable expectation that the government isn't tracking your movements.



That is the bizarre - and scary - rule that now applies in California and eight other Western states. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which covers this vast jurisdiction, recently decided the government can monitor you in this way virtually anytime it wants - with no need for a search warrant. (Read about one man's efforts to escape the surveillance state.)



Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/085992...lYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcmllcwRzbGsDdGhlZ292ZXJubWVu

 

[The Dragon Master]

Umm... Wow. Would that be combated by putting your car in a garage?

 

[Jazzy]

This is a scary thought and all my vehicles are locked in my garage. I also feel that this is trespassing on private property. Gawd help them if they tired it on my property as all the sensor lights would go on along with a very loud alarm if they tried to enter my locked garage.

 

[The Dragon Master]

You could set Miss Piggy on them XD

 

[beowulf]

. Gawd help them if they tired it on my property as all the sensor lights would go on along with a very loud alarm if they tried to enter my locked garage.

that and the 12 gauge