Do you think the FBI should be able to put a tracking device on your car without a warrant?
Question by _______: Do you think the FBI should be able to put a tracking device on your car without a warrant?
Basically a guy dropped his car off to get an oil change. The mechanic looking at his car found a “strange magnetic device”. Turns out it was a tracking device put on the car by the FBI without a warrant.
NOW, the FBI is saying they need to be able to do this. (apparently because actually following someone and getting a warrant from a judge based on probable cause is simply too much of a hassle nowadays). The Obama administration agrees and claims a court ruling that found the FBI should have to get a warrant before putting a digital tracking device on someone’s car was “vague and unworkable” (wtf?).
Doesn’t it seem like George W. Bush is still the president?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101016/ap_on_re_us/us_gps_tracking_warrants#mwpphu-container
SAN FRANCISCO – Yasir Afifi, a 20-year-old computer salesman and community college student, took his car in for an oil change earlier this month and his mechanic spotted an odd wire hanging from the undercarriage.
The wire was attached to a strange magnetic device that puzzled Afifi and the mechanic. They freed it from the car and posted images of it online, asking for help in identifying it.
Two days later, FBI agents arrived at Afifi’s Santa Clara apartment and demanded the return of their property — a global positioning system tracking device now at the center of a raging legal debate over privacy rights.
One federal judge wrote that the widespread use of the device was straight out of George Orwell’s novel, “1984”………………………The federal appeals court based in Washington D.C. said in August that investigators must obtain a warrant for GPS in tossing out the conviction and life sentence of Antoine Jones, a nightclub owner convicted of operating a cocaine distribution ring. That court concluded that the accumulation of four-weeks worth of data collected from a GPS on Jones’ Jeep amounted to a government “search” that required a search warrant……………………..The Obama administration last month asked the D.C. federal appeals court to change its ruling, calling the decision “vague and unworkable” and arguing that investigators will lose access to a tool they now use “with great frequency.”
Best answer:
Answer by Destiny
Nope
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