Topic: Samuel Alito

Supreme Court: Planting GPS tracker on a car is 'search,' requires warrant

Government Computer News - 22 days ago
A unanimous Supreme Court has ruled that installing a Global Positioning System tracking device on a suspect's car constitutes a search and ...

Unanimous U.S. Supreme Court Tells Police on GPS Tracking: Get a Search Warrant

IEEE Spectrum - 22 days ago
The U.S. Supreme Court in a unanimous but somewhat contentious decision (pdf) ruled yesterday that secretly planting Global Positioning-System ...

Court rightly requires warrants for GPS tracking of suspects

Detroit Free Press - 23 days ago
Since the 1980s, civilians around the world have been using 24 satellites originally placed into orbit by the U.S. Department of Defense for...

Warrant needed for GPS tracking, high court says

ABC 6 Philly (WPVI) - 24 days ago
In a rare defeat for law enforcement, the Supreme Court unanimously agreed on Monday to bar police from installing GPS technology to track suspects...

Legality of Mobile Phone Tracking Still Unclear Despite Supreme Court GPS Decision

Wired - 24 days ago
Previous post Next post By David Kravets Email Author January 25, 2012 | 2:24 pm | Categories: gps tracking, privacy Follow @dmkravets . . . The...

Supreme Court Decision on GPS Tracking: A Spur to Action for Congress

ACLU - 24 days ago
As we told you earlier, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday in U.S. v Jones that the government violated the Fourth Amendment when it used a GPS...

What's the Status of the Mosaic Theory After Jones?

The Volokh Conspiracy - 25 days ago
(Orin Kerr) . In its opinion below in what became United States v. Jones, the D.C. Circuit introduced a new “mosaic” theory of the Fourth...

Why Did Justice Sotomayor Join Scalia's Majority Opinion in Jones?

The Volokh Conspiracy - 25 days ago
(Orin Kerr) . One of the puzzles of Jones is how Scalia's opinion ended up being the majority opinion of the Court, while Justice Alito's view is...

The most memorable State of the Union moments

The Fix - 25 days ago
The State of the Union is tonight (of course). Over the past 222 years of speeches, there have been lots of great moments. Here are the most...

Supreme Court sidesteps digital privacy ... for now

GigaOm - 25 days ago
On Monday, the Supreme Court deemed it unconstitutional in most cases to use GPS to track suspects without first obtaining a warrant - calling the...