What's the problem? Just about everyone's cell phone does that already - if you have GPS enabled. Just sayin'.

Countermeasures: Those trackers give off a weak signal of their own, easy to detect if you know what to look for. When you get the indication that you've been bugged with a GPS tracker, just find it on your car, package it carefully, and mail it to a random street address in, say, Karachi or Morocco. Or Washington, DC if you want to tweak someone's nose; wrap it in a note and mail it to your Senator to let him know how happy you are that the cops are on the job.

Just use a bicycle ( a common thing we use here in Europe ) :)

You can't ride a bike to about 90% of the places you want to go in the US, and that's certainly true of states with a lot of rural areas like Wisconsin and here in Texas.

Hey if they just give me a NAV unit, they can track me when ever they want. Or give me access to the tracking unit so I can use it for what ever purpose I might want to use it for too. Oh and bring on the micro chips!

Does this mean I can tag police cars? Hum, I'm thinking tag all the police cars and sell a service to anyone needing to know where they are.

This is a horrible injustice. Who in their right mind would not consider this an invasion of one’s privacy.

It is not invasion of one's person, effects, or personal papers. It is an observation by electronic means that could be done by other means. Your expectation of privacy is absent. You are subject to surveillance when traversing public roads. It would be electronic stalking to do so with other intent, however. The point will become moot shortly when they enable electronic monitoring of vehicles to restrict fuel usage by speed control. Every car will be online tweeting its position, speed and condition at all times. The person is not tracked. The vehicle is. Yes, it is frightening. Smart fuel monitors are next, right after they work out the smart thermostats for your homes.

Why don't they just put a killswitch in the car while they're at it?

I bought one of these already and I couldn't be happier with the resaults

Well if you have nothing to hide then you don't have anything to worry about....if they want to waste their time tracking my car as I drive to school and work every day then they can be my guest. I'm sure they will only use it to track criminals or suspects...NOT just random people like you and me.

Honestly I have to agree that this is making a mockery of the Fourth Amendment. I am all for the idea of keeping criminals in check and all that, but when someone (even a police officer) can put it on your vehicle Without telling you and track everywhere you go, how long is it exactly until it's only up to the police officers personal discretion who he or she tracks at any given time.

This is a Very Bad idea in my opinion, it starts with criminals and seems good, and how long do you think before the same thing starts to happen to normal people?

"Well if you have nothing to hide then you don't have anything to worry about."

Personally I have nothing to hide, but that should not matter, they should Not have the ability to invade my privacy at anytime they deem fit without my prior knowledge. It is an infringement on my rights and no one should stand for this. I hate to repeat myself but as I said in my previous comment.

How long do you think before this idea is used in corrupt and wrong ways? How long until it's used no longer just on criminals but on normal people as well?

I have to agree w/ LeonKaiser, the addage "Nothing to hide so this is no big deal" shouldn't be an excuse or defense in allowing one's civil liberties to be abridged or taken away. If an officer of the court cannot search my home or compel me to legal search and seizure without a warrant then they shouldn't be allowed to track my vehicle without my knowledge. I may travel on public and government created roadways (funded with my tax dollars) but there still should be a quantum of due dilligence in not destroying privacy matters of one's personal vehicle.

The ACLU is a communist organization. It is supported by terrorists.

There was talk in my state about having GPS tracking for registration fees for cars. Instead of paying a flat annual fee they would charge a per mile fee. Sounds great until you think about the fact that the gov't would be tracking every mile you drive. The whole thing makes me nervous. I odn't have anything to hide but that doesn't mean I trust everyone to know everything. I had a bank teller one time pull my address and phone number off of my checking account to call me at my house to ask me out. I was creeped out by that. You never know who's watching.

Oups! Do you know GPSwebcam ?
Chose a location in any city of any country anywhere in the wolrd and we show you the location of nearests webcams...

Some GPS trackers do not produce anything detectable, so countermeasures aren't that easy. The passive ones record tracking information over a period of time, after which someone removes the unit and then extracts the data.

"Well if you have nothing to hide then you don't have anything to worry about....if they want to waste their time tracking my car as I drive to school and work every day then they can be my guest. I'm sure they will only use it to track criminals or suspects...NOT just random people like you and me."

very piss poor excuse for losing your frredom. Along that lines maybe they will show up at your house whenever they want to have a look around. You souldn't be worried, if you have nothing to hide...

Each act is a crack in our freedom. They may seem small now, but believe me, they will all add up. This should be fought, as should all these little violations of our rights. If the police want to track criminals, they should use skill, as they have done in the past.

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Just because you can track people through their cell phones which only so many people realize, even with the phone off (as long as the battery is in) does not mean that people are alright with that either. This is surely a disappointing ruling

> What's next?
> Secretly embedding a chip in each
> one of us

Why do uneducated people seem to take 1 simple thing... and assume that it means something extreme will happen?

Your credit card number... is a number... therefore... we are all just treated like numbers.

If this is what "Democracy" and "Freedom" has morphed into, what was that whole "Cold War" thing about? The Comrads at the Kremlin are falling out of their chairs. Even giddy about it probably.

"Why do uneducated people seem to take 1 simple thing... and assume that it means something extreme will happen?"

It's not uneducated people, it is those who have some awareness of history.

The world cheered when the first gun registrations were required by a government. Little did they know that within seven years those registration records would be used to remove weapons from the hands of common citizens for the purpose of instituting a police state. People then and there gave up their right to defend themselves and the enemy that time was their own government, not some sleazebag thief.

Everyone cheered the "tougher" airport security measures that were instituted post-9/11. Please continue to ignore the fact that those measures would have had zero effect on whether or not the planes were seized by terrorists. We happily gave up more of our freedoms (we are required to submit to search to travel now) not for increased security but for the ILLUSION of increased security.

Anyone who thinks that nothing extreme will happen is looking only at current intent. But the old addage "Give somebody an inch and they'll take a mile" applies. Perhaps those who can and will use this today have only the noblest intent. Can you be certain that those in the same position even one year from now will?

Any officer will tell you, follow a car long enough the driver will break some obscure law, bam got you. Its an Intrusion without court oversight.

Just as you are secure in your papers, effects, person, house... the Fourth Amendment should protect one's car. If there is insufficient evidence of probable cause, then the police should not have the right to attach this devise. If a private investigator or other individual used this device, it should definitely be an actionable invasion of privacy, and I would be very surprised if it isn't (or soon will be).