January 23, 2012

Supreme Court Rules Against GPS Tracking Without Warrants

Blog, Privacy & Security, USJanuary 23, 2012

The Supreme Court today issued an opinion in the case of United States v. Jones, concerning whether the police needed a warrant before they placed a GPS tracking device on the underside of a suspect’s car. In a unanimous decision, the Court upheld the DC Circuit’s opinion holding that the police should have had a valid warrant,…

Supreme Court Rules Against GPS Monitoring Without A Warrant

News & EventsJanuary 23, 2012

The U.S. Supreme Court said today that installing a GPS monitoring device constitutes a search and is therefore prohibited by the 4th amendment without a warrant. The decision that such a search is illegal was unanimous, but the justices differed in their reasoning. The majority of the court ruled 5-4 that placing the geo-tracking device…