Time: The Government Can Use GPS to Track Your Moves

Gerald · 08-25-10, 07:15 PM

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

Sailor Steve · 08-25-10, 07:24 PM

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.

Castout · 08-25-10, 07:51 PM

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

Platapus · 08-25-10, 07:55 PM

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?

Ducimus · 08-25-10, 07:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Vendor

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

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.

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Originally Posted by Castout

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

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 )

Gerald · 08-25-10, 09:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Ducimus

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.
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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!

Ducimus · 08-25-10, 09:18 PM

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.

Gerald · 08-25-10, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Ducimus

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.

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

08-25-10, 07:15 PM	#1
Gerald SUBSIM Newsman Join Date: May 2008 Location: Close to sea Posts: 24,254 Downloads: 553 Uploads: 0	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. __________________ Nothing in life is to be feard,it is only to be understood. Marie Curie

08-25-10, 07:24 PM	#2
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	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. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

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Castout Silent Hunter Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Jakarta Posts: 4,794 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 6	Privacy doesn't exist in the part of world why should it exist over there? __________________ My blog: http://exposingsingapore.wordpress.com/

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Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,377 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	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? __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

08-25-10, 09:18 PM	#7
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	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.