Candid But Scary
Monday 27 February 2012 - Filed under Uncategorized
The General Counsel for the FBI has admitted that the law enforcement agency, after the US V Jones ruling which established that placing a GPS device on a vehicle constituted a search under the 4th Amendment, turned off ~3000 GPS tracking devices that were in use without a warrant.
Mr. Weissmann, speaking at a University of San Francisco conference called “Big Brother in the 21st Century” on Friday, said that the court ruling prompted the FBI to turn off about 3,000 GPS tracking devices that were in use.
These devices were often stuck underneath cars to track the movements of the car owners. In U.S. v. Jones, the Supreme Court ruled that using a device to track a car owner without a search warrant violated the law.
I wonder if he meant that the FBI turned off the devices, or “turned off” the devices.
2012-02-27 » madlibertarianguy