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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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