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What do you think about government GPS monitoring?

admin — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 07:18:24 +0000

Question by Classical Liberal (libertarian):
What do you believe about government GPS monitoring?
Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS gadget on the bottom of your vehicle and preserve track of all over the place you go. This doesn’t violate your Fourth Amendment rights, due to the fact you do not have any affordable expectation of privacy in your personal driveway — and no affordable expectation that the government isn’t tracking your movements.
That is the bizarre — and scary — rule that now applies in California and eight other Western states. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which covers this vast jurisdiction, not long ago decided the government can monitor you in this way virtually anytime it wants — with no want for a search warrant.
(See a TIME photoessay on Cannabis Culture.)
It is a harmful choice — 1 that, as the dissenting judges warned, could turn America into the kind of totalitarian state imagined by George Orwell. It is particularly offensive because the judges additional insult to injury with some shocking class bias: the little private privacy that still exists, the court recommended, ought to belong primarily to the rich.

This situation began in 2007, when Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents determined to monitor Juan Pineda-Moreno, an Oregon resident who they suspected was expanding marijuana. They snuck onto his property in the middle of the evening and located his Jeep in his driveway, a few feet from his trailer home. Then they attached a GPS tracking gadget to the vehicle’s underside.
After Pineda-Moreno challenged the DEA’s actions, a 3-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit ruled in January that it was all completely legal. More disturbingly, a greater group of judges on the circuit, who were subsequently asked to reconsider the ruling, decided this month to let it stand. (Pineda-Moreno has pleaded guilty conditionally to conspiracy to manufacture marijuana and manufacturing marijuana even though appealing the denial of his motion to suppress evidence obtained with the aid of GPS.)

In these highly partisan times, GPS monitoring is a topic that has each conservatives and liberals worried. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s pro-privacy ruling was unanimous — determined by judges appointed by Presidents Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
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Plenty of liberals have objected to this type of spying, but it is the conservative Chief Judge Kozinski who has carried out so most passionately. “1984 might have come a bit later than predicted, but it really is right here at final,” he lamented in his dissent. And invoking Orwell’s totalitarian dystopia in which privacy is basically nonexistent, he warned: “Some day, soon, we could wake up and find we’re living in Oceania.”

http://www.time.com/time/nation/post/,8599,2013150,00.html?xid=rss-fullnation-yahoo

What do you believe about this?

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Answer by Greyhound
At least it wasn’t GPS, satellite, and wireless video broadcasting.

Answer by Livy
I did not examine the complete issue, but I believe placing a tracking gadget on a individuals automobile is a major violation of privacy. It really is slightly creepy also.

Answer by Proud Texan
I am going to let you in on a small secret, your cell cellphone has a tracking device in it. The government has satellites in area that can study the brand of cigarettes you smoke and the government has listening devices that can hear your conversations via your walls in your home. There is no expectation of privacy in this globe anymore. Even so if you are not involved in criminal activity the government gets rather bored fairly fast watching you take your kids to soccer practice.

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Q&A: What do you think would happen if a virtually free source of energy was discovered?

admin — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:17:03 +0000

Question by Gadfly:
What do you consider would happen if a almost free of charge supply of energy was discovered?
If men and women and corporations suddenly became self sufficient in terms of electrical power and transportation, lets say an ultra effective solar or fuel cell was created, how would the government compensate for the sudden huge loss of tax revenue? Would they tax the production and ownership of such an energy source at such a rate as to make its ownership financially prohibitive? Would they adhere to Oregon’s instance with their planed requirement of GPS units in autos, tracking the distances you travel, then tax you for each mile you drive? Would some sort of meter be necessary on each and every solar array or generator in houses and organizations?

What do you consider the political and economic repercussions of such scenario would be?
@cob bollum “it will by no means be totally “free of charge”, it’s physically not possible.”
I’m not suggesting a way close to the laws of thermodynamics. I said ultra efficient. An ultra effective way to capture the suns energy and store it for instance would be a supply of “totally free” power, other than it really is initial purchase and any upkeep necessary.
@James L Those are my thoughts as effectively, even so I do not see government giving up their control so easily despite the economic windfall such a development could precipitate. Maybe i’m a pessimist, but I do not see them trading control and income for just far more income, even if that revenue had the prospective to be a lot higher.

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Answer by Cold Tough Reality
You imply like the Sun?

Answer by Andy
Energy lobbyists would bribe politicians into creating it illegal for “safety” reasons.

Answer by Critical Conditioning
Our sun has been around for billions of years. Not a current discovery.

It would be cool if we could tap into the planet’s magnetic fields for usable power. Of course the government would tax it, that is what governments do, steal resources to perpetuate government.

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What do you think about the GPS being put on new cars to track mileage and tax it?

admin — Sun, 22 May 2011 06:18:35 +0000

Question by Jessica:
What do you consider about the GPS being place on new cars to track mileage and tax it?
I heard this on the news the other day, taking location in Ontario in a couple years, they are currently testing it. It monitors the time you travel and where you travel, and your rate depends on the times of day you travel!

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Answer by nickpoinier
Wow, folks are so dumb. Next they are going to blame global cooling on sea kittens…

Answer by Gabriel V
Just an additional tactic getting proposed to pass in the course of a time of “crisis.” What do you believe it implies when you add the White Property taking manage of the US Census, healthcare spending to get ALL Americans in the medical information base, and the list goes on.

Answer by paladin_5585
Yeah one more Democratic answer to almost everything, TAX IT.

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Do you think the FBI should be able to put a tracking device on your car without a warrant?

admin — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 19:17:02 +0000

Question by _______:
Do you assume the FBI really should be able to place a tracking device on your car with out a warrant?
Basically a guy dropped his vehicle off to get an oil change. The mechanic looking at his auto identified a “strange magnetic device”. Turns out it was a tracking device place on the automobile by the FBI without having a warrant.

NOW, the FBI is saying they require to be able to do this. (apparently due to the fact really following an individual and getting a warrant from a judge based on probable lead to is just too considerably of a hassle nowadays). The Obama administration agrees and claims a court ruling that discovered the FBI need to have to get a warrant just before putting a digital tracking device on someone’s vehicle was “vague and unworkable” (wtf?).

Does not it appear like George W. Bush is nevertheless the president?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101016/ap_on_re_us/us_gps_tracking_warrants#mwpphu-container

SAN FRANCISCO – Yasir Afifi, a 20-year-old computer salesman and community school student, took his auto in for an oil change earlier this month and his mechanic spotted an odd wire hanging from the undercarriage.

The wire was attached to a strange magnetic device that puzzled Afifi and the mechanic. They freed it from the vehicle and posted pictures of it on the internet, asking for aid in identifying it.

Two days later, FBI agents arrived at Afifi’s Santa Clara apartment and demanded the return of their property — a international positioning method tracking device now at the center of a raging legal debate more than privacy rights.

A single federal judge wrote that the widespread use of the device was straight out of George Orwell’s novel, “1984″………………………The federal appeals court based in Washington D.C. stated in August that investigators must get a warrant for GPS in tossing out the conviction and life sentence of Antoine Jones, a nightclub owner convicted of operating a cocaine distribution ring. That court concluded that the accumulation of four-weeks worth of information collected from a GPS on Jones’ Jeep amounted to a government “search” that required a search warrant……………………..The Obama administration final month asked the D.C. federal appeals court to alter its ruling, calling the selection “vague and unworkable” and arguing that investigators will lose access to a tool they now use “with fantastic frequency.”

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Answer by Destiny
Nope

Answer by Interest: Testicles That Is All
Hell no.

Answer by MATT
That would creep me out, but isn’t that kid the son of a man who became a martyr for the Muslim extremists lead to? There is more to this story of who that kid is and where he is from. Yahoo is leaving that out. They ought to have gotten a warrant to track him. This wouldn’t be an issue if they did.

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Do you think it’s okay for parents to track their children? Like GPS cell phones, car trackers?

admin — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 08:19:03 +0000

Question by CHRISTOPHER R:
Do you think it’s okay for parents to track their children? Like GPS cell phones, car trackers?
Do you think it’s okay for parents to track their children? Like GPS cell phones, car trackers, etc?

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Answer by MadTurki
Definitely – we’re fortunate we’re in an era where their safety is increased like that.

If your kid is doing nothing wrong they have nothing to worry about.

At a certain point though the kid needs to be released and have more freedom without being tracked – imo 16ish!

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Q&A: Do you think it’s okay for parents to track their children? Like GPS cell phones, car trackers?

admin — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 08:15:52 +0000

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Answer by Jack
absolutely, they are children. Once they are adults its not ok.

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Is bugging your girlfriend’s car with a GPS tracking device going too far if you think she’s cheating?

admin — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 05:17:09 +0000

Question by MAS:
Is bugging your girlfriend’s car with a GPS tracking device going too far if you think she’s cheating?

You can go to ebay and get one. under “vehicle tracker”
Well obviously I have trust issues with her that we need to work on, but I wouldn’t think of doing this without good reason and I don’t want to break up with her if she is being faithful.

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Answer by dkodmp5
Not at all. Can you tell me how to do that?

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I think someone put a tracking app or something spy related on my blackberry 8100 phone. How do I check it?

admin — Mon, 24 May 2010 07:34:10 +0000

Can I reformat it? or check it for spy ware?

What do you think about the GPS being put on new cars to track mileage and tax it?

admin — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 07:31:45 +0000

I heard this on the news the other day, taking place in Ontario in a couple years, they are already testing it. It monitors the time you travel and where you travel, and your rate depends on the times of day you travel!

i have Verizon and i think that my mother put a tracking device on my cell phone ?

admin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:34:00 +0000

I think my mom put a tracking device on my cell phone how can i tell if she did and how can i temporally remove it

does stand alone mode help also i have verizon