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Is a lifetime of involuntary GPS monitoring constitutional?

Posted on March 24, 2015June 30, 2025 by Dissent

David Kravets reports:

When the Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that affixing GPS devices to vehicles to track their every move without court warrants was an unconstitutional trespass, the outcome was seen as one of the biggest high court decisions in the digital age.

That precedent, which paved the way for the disabling of thousands of GPS devices clandestinely tacked onto vehicles by the authorities, is now being invoked to question the involuntary placement of GPS devices onto human beings.

Read more on Ars Technica.

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