Time: The Government Can Use GPS to Track Your Moves
 

I guess I better clean out my garage and park my car in my garage

(I wish)

Eh, this isn't necessarily new. Like it or not, the government has always had the capacity to track you discretely if it wanted to; maybe the only real difference here is that it's maybe a bit cheaper to do this technically now than it was before. I'm not sure if it really makes it more (or less) likely for them to want to track the average person though.

Not saying that doing something like that isn't outrageous (of course it is!), but I think people have to be realistic about this. It's been done and will be done, and if you want to do something about it, the only way to (legally and ethically) do anything about it is to ask your representative(s) tough questions.

The authorities have been able to do so in,
 

years, and although other techniques are used frequently.they can use your cell phone or PC as an example.

What is interesting isn't the fact that they've been doing it. That is a given, and I'm sure we all already knew that. What is interesting is the different opinions the courts are giving. What is even more interesting will be how it turns out.

Privacy doesn't exist in the part of world why should it exist over there?:hmmm:

If you discover one of the GPS trackers, can you be punished if you remove it? Especially if it was placed there without a warrant?

True, but they require a warrant to get that information from the phone companies. I think the issue is tracking citizens without any warrant at all.

Because the US is supposed to be the land of the free? Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? (insert red white and blue, patroitic spiel about founding fathers here )

I agree with what you say, yes..
 

but if they want to track an individual without their knowing it is possible to arrange this, no decision from the company, but by law, normal prosecutor or Judge to have given approval for this type of tracking, where the information is stored in different base stations,but that, unfortunately, is regrettable as it is very much not defend his rights!

Well, I want Law enforcement to be able to do it's job, to get bad guys off the street without having to cut through miles of bureaucratic red tape in order to do so. However, being able to do "stuff" without a warrant is basicly allowing the government to say:

"We will do what we want, citizen."

And if that's true, in that context, we may as well have no rights at all. At which point, any comparisons to "1984" ceases to become an embellished metaphor, but cold hard reality.

Yes, in my opinion,,
 

it is hard and cold,and as you say yourself, reality.

Or they could just put a couple donut eaters in an unmarked and follow the suspect like they have always done. Is this electronic version of the discrete tail any more intrusive?

No, but like I said, the main thing is that it's a lot cheaper and less labour-intensive. That may (or may not) make it more likely to actually be deployed to monitor someone just-in-case, as opposed to on a serious lead. Putting cops on someone's tail is at least one of those things where the question of "is it really worth it?" would likely come up.

That sentence made me think of this.

Imagine if the local authorities came by your house, and slapped an ankle monitor on you, without any provocation that you were aware of. They just show up one day, and slap one of those ankle monitors on you, so they know where you are at all times.

A GPS slapped on your car, without a warrant, is the same damn thing.