The Government Can Use GPS to Track Your Moves

**Dude111** · August 25th, 2010, 10:45 PM

http://www.time.com/time/nation/arti...013150,00.html

Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn't violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway — and no reasonable expectation that the government isn't tracking your movements. [more]

UNREAL!!!!!!!!

This is very scary and disturbing!!!!!!

**howste** · August 26th, 2010, 12:25 AM

Why is this scary to you? Are you doing something illegal?

They'd have to enter my garage to find my car at home, where I expect it would be illegal for them to enter without a warrant. I think the government has better things to do than to track where I go anyway.

I can just see the conversation now:
Agent 1: "Where's howste now?"
Agent 2: "I'm not sure - his car's at the airport again."
Agent 1: "I just love government work."
Agent 2: "Are you going to eat that donut?"

**GroundZero3** · August 26th, 2010, 06:06 AM

Even your girlfriend can do this to you

**Nude_Lewd_Man** · August 26th, 2010, 07:01 AM

As much as I dislike "aiding and abetting" Dude111's [usually] random and pointless threads, the basics of the story in that case are:

Person doing illegal activity
Person living in a caravan ('trailer' for those in the US)
Nothing to physically mark out the area that could be considered the "curtilage" of said abode

Resultion:
Don't partake in illegal activities that could lead to the policing forces wanting to follow you.
Don't live in a 'trailer park' - or, if you do, put up a fence to mark out your curtilage.

Originally Posted by GroundZero3

Even your girlfriend can do this to you

I somehow doubt that Dude has a girlfriend...

**Taxmancometh** · September 5th, 2010, 07:45 AM

Originally Posted by GroundZero3

Even your girlfriend can do this to you

And more! Trust me... Like CCD camera's and sht.

**howste** · September 5th, 2010, 10:33 AM

More frightening than the government tracking my car is the Russians tracking my dog.

**Dude111** · September 6th, 2010, 09:53 PM

Originally Posted by howste

Why is this scary to you? Are you doing something illegal?

Thats not the point mate,in your mind people WHO DO NOT should willingly give up thier privacy??

**howste** · September 6th, 2010, 10:57 PM

Let's not forget this thread from seven years ago: Do the police need a warrant to track your car with GPS?

**Dude111** · September 6th, 2010, 11:24 PM

Hmmmmmmm i didnt see that thread. Unfortunetly there is 1 invalid link in it or i would ask the staff if MY thread could be merged with that one....

Ah well...