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[Edward]

In August 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, California, headed by Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, who dissented, ruled that home driveways are still public to mailmen, delivery people, children and strangers and thus, the police have a right, without violating the Fourth Amendment, to secretly place GPS devices on cars in driveways and track those cars - without a warrant.

http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/

Bye Bye Miss American Pie.. Drove my Chevy to the levy but the levy was dry.. and them good old boys were drinkin wiskey and rye.. Singin, this will be the day that I die.
 

[Edward]

Thursday, September 9, 2010; 11:28 PM

The Defense Department is attempting to buy the entire first printing - 10,000 copies - of a memoir by a controversial former Defense Intelligence Agency officer so that the book can be destroyed, according to military and other sources.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/09/AR2010090907746.html

[Edward]

In August 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, California, headed by Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, who dissented, ruled that home driveways are still public to mailmen, delivery people, children and strangers and thus, the police have a right, without violating the Fourth Amendment, to secretly place GPS devices on cars in driveways and track those cars - without a warrant.

http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/

Bye Bye Miss American Pie.. Drove my Chevy to the levy but the levy was dry.. and them good old boys were drinkin wiskey and rye.. Singin, this will be the day that I die.
 

Well Well...Not So Fast there judge Alex... 

The court went on to make a second terrible decision about privacy: that once a GPS device has been planted, the government is free to use it to track people without getting a warrant. There is a major battle under way in the federal and state courts over this issue, and the stakes are high. After all, if government agents can track people with secretly planted GPS devices virtually anytime they want, without having to go to a court for a warrant, we are one step closer to a classic police state - with technology taking on the role of the KGB or the East German Stasi.

Fortunately, other courts are coming to a different conclusion from the Ninth Circuit's - including the influential U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. That court ruled, also this month, that tracking for an extended period of time with GPS is an invasion of privacy that requires a warrant. The issue is likely to end up in the Supreme Court.
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/27-2

[Edward]

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