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>>I'm surprised I don't have a problem with this - but I don't - just as I don't have a problem with CCTV cameras. Technological extension of what can be done now legally with manpower without a warrant.
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>I could care less if the police want to put a GPS on my car and track me everywhere if they have a warrant. Won't be very interesting for them. :o) However, how and where they put that GPS on my vehicle is a concern. I really do not think they should be able to do so while my car is parked in my driveway on my personal property without a warrant. If I get a photo or camera film taken of me when I shop or when I drive or walk in public places, so be it. Those areas are fair game. But if I am in/on my personal property, no way.
What you say makes sense (as usual). Police should not be able enter your property without a warrant or other just cause and then only for whatever purpose is in the warrant. Seems a reasonable limitation since they only have to follow you to the first public place you park. I agree that police entering your property without permission to plant the tracker *is* a privacy violation (and a good way to get shot if they do it surreptitiously <s>)
Charles Hankey
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- Thomas Hardy
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