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Supreme Court Rules Police Need Warrant to Use GPS Tracking

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The Intel Hub
January 24, 2012

The Supreme Court has sided with the American people in their decision to ban police throughout the country from using GPS technology without first obtaining a warrant.

The five justices who ruled in favor of civil liberties, made it clear that this would not be their last word on the use of technology by police against the people of America.

The Associated Press reported on this Supreme Court ruling in the police worshiping, corporate controlled media style they have grown so accustomed too.

In a rare defeat for law enforcement, the Supreme Court unanimously agreed on Monday to bar police from installing GPS technology to track suspects without first getting a judge’s approval. The justices made clear it wouldn’t be their final word on increasingly advanced high-tech surveillance of Americans.

Indicating they will be monitoring the growing use of such technology, five justices said they could see constitutional and privacy problems with police using many kinds of electronic surveillance for long-term tracking of citizens’ movements without warrants.

While the justices differed on legal rationales, their unanimous outcome was an unusual setback for government and police agencies grown accustomed to being given leeway in investigations in post-Sept. 11 America, including by the Supreme Court. The views of at least the five justices raised the possibility of new hurdles down the road for police who want to use high-tech surveillance of suspects, including various types of GPS technology.

While this is a clear cut win for freedom and liberty, the fact remains that the government and police agencies of this once great country will continue to use new technology to track any and all American citizens that they deem a “threat.”



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4 Responses to “Supreme Court Rules Police Need Warrant to Use GPS Tracking”
  1. Lo Phatt says:
    January 24, 2012 at 4:16 pm

    Good! Did we actually have to get a ruling on that? How does it make you feel to know that “your” police actually want to do this? If they understand what rights are, how could they attempt something like this? Oh, I remember, they don’t work for us.

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