Sunday, November 16, 2014

Bag? Check. Hat? Check. Keys? Check. GPS Tracker? ....What?

In 2007 the DEA decided to monitor Juan Pineda-Moreno, an Oregon resident who they suspected was growing marijuana. They snuck onto his property in the middle of the night and found his Jeep in his driveway, a few feet from his trailer home. Then they attached a GPS tracking device to the vehicle’s underside.
http://www.flyingsnail.com/Dahbud/telecrimepunish.html

Now, some may say they had a right to, he was thought to be doing something illegal. However Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn’t violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway — and no reasonable expectation that the government isn’t tracking your movements.

That is the bizarre — and scary — rule that now applies in California and eight other Western states. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, recently decided the government can monitor you in this way virtually anytime it wants — with no need for a search warrant.

Many believe that the U.S government is fearing they are losing power, and they are turning to a totalitarian state. However, many will say this is a exaggerated accusation and that even if they have the power to, they would never do it. I say to them how would you feel if the government was monitoring you during vacations? Because they do. In a first hand account by a U.S citizen in this article. (http://ivn.us/2014/09/03/u-s-government-tracking-citizens-overseas/)

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