Entries tagged with: GPS
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Supreme Court Upholds Fourth Amendment in GPS Tracking Case
Today the Supreme Court unanimously held in U.S. v. Jones that the warrantless use of a GPS tracking device by the police violated the Fourth Amendment. The Court said that a warrant is required "[w]here, as here, the government obtains...
Supreme Court to Hear Arguments in GPS Tracking Case
The United States Supreme Court will hear arguments on November 8 to determine whether the warrantless use of a GPS tracking device by the police violates the Fourth Amendment. EPIC filed a "friend of the court" brief in US v....
EPIC Urges Supreme Court to Uphold Fourth Amendment in GPS Case
EPIC filed a "friend of the court" brief in the United States Supreme Court urging the Court to limit the scope of pervasive GPS surveillance by upholding robust Fourth Amendment protections. Along with 30 legal and technical experts, EPIC argued...
US v. Jones
Concerning Warrantless GPS Installation and Tracking Under the Fourth Amendment Latest News | Questions Presented | Background | Opinion | EPIC's Interest in Jones | Legal Documents | Resources | News Reports Top News : () Questions Presented (1) Whether...
Location Privacy: Apple iPhone / iPad
On April 20, 2011, Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden announced that they had discovered that the Apple iPhone and the Apple 3G iPad were regularly recording the devices' locations into a hidden file. The data gathering, they claimed, was "clearly...
Delaware Court Strikes Down Warrantless GPS Tracking
The Delaware Superior Court has ruled that police must obtain a warrant before using GPS devices to monitor vehicles. The Court said that the Delaware Constitution protects its citizens' reasonable expectation of privacy from "constant surveillance." "Everyone understands there is...
Court of Appeals Requires Warrant for Access to Location Data
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed an earlier decision that the government cannot seize historical cell-site data without first satisfying strict warrant requirements. The data identifies the location of the towers nearest to a mobile phone user at the...
Virginia Court of Appeals Authorizes Warrantless GPS Tracking
In Foltz v. Virginia, the Virginia Court of Appeals held that law enforcement may place a GPS tracking device on a vehicle without violating the Fourth Amendment. The Court found that the defendant did not have an expectation of privacy,...
Federal Appeals Court Requires Warrant for GPS Tracking
The D.C. Circuit Court ruled that police must obtain a warrant before using GPS devices to monitor vehicles. GPS tracking constitutes a seizure under the U.S. Constitution because "prolonged GPS monitoring reveals an intimate picture of the subject‘s life that...
State Courts Split on Warrantless GPS Tracking
Today, the New York Court of Appeals ruled that police must obtain a warrant before installing GPS tracking devices on individuals' vehicles. The decision prohibits law enforcement from secretly using GPS trackers to compile comprehensive travel histories on citizens...
EPIC Urges Massachusetts High Court to Protect Drivers From Warrantless Tracking by Law Enforcement, Warns of "Pervasive Mass Surveillance"
Today, EPIC filed a "friend of the court" brief in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, urging the Justices to require a warrant before police covertly track drivers using concealed surveillance technology. In Commonwealth v. Connolly, the Court will determine whether...
