It would seem that in the West, the cops can slap a GPS tracker on your car in the middle of the night. No warrant, no reason required, just because they feel like doing so.
Unless you own your own home and at least put up a "no trespassing" sign.
If I remember correctly, some of those states are "castle doctrine" states, to the point that if you see somebody fucking with your car, you might be permitted to just shoot them.
Some of those gizmos are pretty small. If you do find one on your car, I'd suggest either gutting it for its components or toss it onto a semi-trailer at a rest stop. Or a UPS truck.
Could get interesting here in Soviet Amerika...
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Step by step we lose our freedoms in this country but only a few lefties yell about this state of affairs and it goes on. Why aren't the teabaggers outraged over this?
ReplyDeleteIsn't it odd that this doesn't count as a sort of (illegal if unwarranted) wiretap device, but filming cops out in public DOES count as illegal wiretap activity?
ReplyDeleteHere's a gizmo to detect their GPS trackers...
ReplyDeletehttp://gizmodo.com/5622807/how-to-stop-the-government-from-tracking-your-location
Like wiretapping there are two phases.
ReplyDeleteDetection, is it there?
They cannot prohibit or control that.
Mitigation, dealing with it.
Lots of possible ways. easiest, drop it in a body of water or float it on one.
This whole warrantless bovine-excrement needs a political clean out.
I still do not know where use of a camera (analog, digital or film) is wiretapping as you are not intercepting ANY media of ANY kind.
It's is new work, and 1A applies along with interstate commerce, digital millenium and copyrights and property. I'd argue news gathering
applies.
If you never broadcast or otherwise
transmit the images then Communications act of 1934 does not apply.
Eck!
I can see myself ordering one of those things and getting arrested. It'd probably be better if I found the circuit diagrams and just built them. It's been a long time since I did that and it might be good practice.
ReplyDelete" A reasonable expectation of privacy"
ReplyDeleteThank you Ronald Fucking Reagan.
The exact same phrase the cocksuckers( read Supreme Court) used to justify random drug testing.
This is expressly prohibited by what so quaintly used to be known as the Fourth Amendment.
Damn, I sure miss those Constitutional rights I was guaranteed when I was born fifty fucking years ago.
Thank heaven for locked garages. On the other hand, my car is bright stinkin sunshine yellow. One of 3 in town. Let those lazy cops do the old fashioned thing and follow my ass to the grocery store and home again. I promise to be boring, even though I am likely shopping with suspected gangsters.
ReplyDeleteI'll bet that destroying the GPS will get you in trouble for destruction of public property. I'll bet that removing it will get you an interfering with an ongoing investigation charge.
ReplyDeleteThe powers that be are not going to take lightly to someone trying to assert their rights. Just like they always do. You think these are rights that have to be taken away and cops and conservatives think these are rights that have to be earned. And of course only the right kind of people can earn them.