GPS goes too far.
The New York State Court of Appeals recently ruled that the state
police violated a suspect's rights under the state constitution
when it placed a GPS tracking device inside the bumper of his van
without a warrant. According to The New York Times, the police attached
a Q-ball on the suspect's van secretly in the middle of night and
tracked his comings and goings for 65 days. "In light of the
unsettled state of federal law on the issue, we premise our ruling on
our State Constitution alone," wrote Judge Jonathan Lippman, citing
similar decisions in Oregon and Washington.
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