Jan. 23 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Supreme Court put new limits on the power of police to track criminal suspects’ cars using GPS signals, ruling for the first time on the constitutional implications of the increasingly common devices.

Today’s decision addresses the unprecedented power technology is giving police to peer into Americans’ day-to-day activities.

The justices unanimously overturned the drug conviction of Antoine Jones, while splintering in their reasoning. Writing for the five-justice majority, Justice Antonin Scalia said police officers “encroached on a protected area” when they attached a global-positioning system device to Jones’ car without a valid warrant.

Originally posted by SLAYER69
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If I'm not mistaken two threads is permissible on the same subject if one is in "Breaking News" and the other is in a non related board .

In this case the "NWO/Big Brother" angle.

. Maybe Big Brother wants people's attention focused elsewhere?

“People reveal a great deal of information about themselves to third parties in the court of carrying out mundane tasks,” Sotomayor wrote. Perhaps people come to see a “diminution of privacy” as inevitable, Sotomayor said.

“I for one doubt that people would accept without complaint the warrantless disclosure to the government of a list of every Web site they had visited in the last week, or month, or year.”

But, she said, “resolution of these difficult questions” is unnecessary because she agreed with the majority that the government’s “physical intrusion on Jones’ Jeep” supplies a narrower avenue to decide the case.

Big deal

Originally posted by kn0wh0w
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Big deal

I think it is.
Evidence obtained this way is inadmissable in court.