Supreme Court Rules Warrants Needed for GPS Monitoring
SOURCE: SLASHDOT • 2012-01-23
gambit3 writes The Supreme Court has issued its ruling in the case of Washington, D.C. nightclub owner Antoine Jones, saying police must get a search warrant before using GPS technology to track criminal suspects. A federal appeals court in Washington overturned his drug conspiracy conviction because police did not have a warrant when they installed a GPS device on his vehicle and then tracked his movements for a month. Read more of this story at Slashdot. read more »