By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Supreme Court has ruled and the FBI is responding. USA Today reports that the FBI has started cutting back on the use of GPS surveillance in wake of a Jan. 23 Supreme Court ruling which said law enforcement needs court authorization to attach a GPS to a vehicle. The paper…
By Robert Barnes Washington Post WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that police must obtain a search warrant before using a GPS device to track criminal suspects. But the justices left for another day larger questions about how technology has altered a person’s expectation of privacy. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that the government…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The tension between effective law enforcement and personal privacy is always present to some degree, but has certainly intensified in the decade following 9/11. Now, a bipartisan group including former FBI and DEA leaders are calling for new safeguards to protect individuals’ personal privacy. The Constitution Project, a D.C.-based think tank,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 20-year-old Egyptian-American college student in California filed a lawsuit against the FBI on Wednesday, saying the agency violated his civil rights when it secretly placed a GPS tracking device on his car, the Associated Press reported. Yasir Afifi, a student at Mission College in Santa Clara, Calif., who insists the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Arab- American student from California who recently found an FBI GPS on his car is asking his Congressman to help find out why he was being followed, Jeff Stein of Spy Talk reports. Stein reports that student Yasir Afifi has turned to Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.) for help. Afifi’s attorney…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ooops! The publication WIRED reports that a student in California, the son of an Islamic-American community leader, found a GPS device on his car during an oil change and the FBI came knocking to get it back. The whole thing started last Sunday when Yasir Afifi, a 20-year-old American born business…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The issue of law enforcement using warrantless GPS is still simmering. The latest: The Justice Department on Monday asked the full U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. to overturn a ruling by a three-judge panel, which said law enforcement must get a warrant when using a GPS to track…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Apparently GPS isn’t just for the geographically challenged anymore. The Chicago Tribune is reporting that police were able to track down three bank robbers in suburban Chicago last week, thanks to a credit-card sized GPS device that had been stuffed in with the stolen cash. The paper, referring to an FBI…
