The Court, Privacy, and GPS Tracking

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By Harvard Political Review | 15 November 2011 | 186

Police, suspecting Antoine Jones of selling cocaine, attached a GPS tracking device to his Jeep Grand Cherokee without a warrant. They monitored his travels for a month, and used the evidence to convict him. But the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit overturned Jones’s conviction, ruling that the amount of information collected violated the Fourth Amendment. Read More