Privacy and Technology

There is an intersting article on Slashdot about the warrantless use of a GPS device to track and apprehend a criminal after NY State Police secreted the device in his car. Although I have not read the decision, the reasoning seems to be that there is no expectation of privacy in the location of your vehicle on the open road. Here's to a NY judge that actaully makes sense. Why not use GPS devices? Everyone would agree that a court order is not needed for surveillance by a couple of detectives. Why should it be required for GPS? Some, of course, think that the purpose of the law is to stymie the police at every opportunity or at the very least make it as difficult as possible to catch criminals.

Here is a link to the somewhat alarmist posting on Slashdot. Here's a link to the original C-Net news story.
- posted by Base10 @ 6:55 PM