You say that now. But once the pre-fabricated tear-jerker story about how a kidnapped child is saved with this combination of tech and loss of rights, then people will forget about these "amendments" and think of the children.
Only half kidding. Okay, more like one third or less...
surveillance has always been ok so i agree with the constitutionality of it, however, if a citizen finds one of these tracking devices affixed to their car, they should legally be able to remove it and/or destroy it or even use it against the cops. It cannot be conscripted or illegal to impede, much the same as pulling your blinds so the police cannot see in during a stakeout.
When OnStar was big there was a ruling that the police could not use it to track people because it was possible that such use might interfere with the service OnStar was contracted to provide to the customer.
If the gps device has some proveable detrimental effect to your property there would be grounds to legally disallow their use or at least require legal permission of some kind. If they install it inside then that's some form of illegal entry, if the hood is only unlatchable from the locked passenger compartment then that might count too. They could affix it to the underbody but then it wouldn't function well.
But otherwise it's not that different than the police physically following someone.
Well look on the bright side - to a radio gearhead like me, I'd be delighted to detect, locate, and then use for my own devious purposes these transmitters.
The GPS frequencies are well known, and I may or may not have had GPS jamming hardware on hand at some point. GPS runs on such a faint signal, that it relies on tricky mechanics to provide a useful signal at signal strengths already below the noise threshold. A jammer doesn't need to do much to tip the delicate balance and render the device useless long enough to piss some people off, and/or relocate the offending transmitter, possibly in a UPS box on its way to the other side of the country?
Also, you can buy these GPS tracking devices, yourself. I believe they use GSM or CDMA cell networks to report in. Did I mention that the aforementioned hypothetical jammer I may or may not have played with also sported CDMA and GSM jamming?
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If the gps device has some proveable detrimental effect to your property there would be grounds to legally disallow their use or at least require legal permission of some kind. If they install it inside then that's some form of illegal entry, if the hood is only unlatchable from the locked passenger compartment then that might count too. They could affix it to the underbody but then it wouldn't function well.
But otherwise it's not that different than the police physically following someone.
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Turnabout / good for the gander.
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The GPS frequencies are well known, and I may or may not have had GPS jamming hardware on hand at some point. GPS runs on such a faint signal, that it relies on tricky mechanics to provide a useful signal at signal strengths already below the noise threshold. A jammer doesn't need to do much to tip the delicate balance and render the device useless long enough to piss some people off, and/or relocate the offending transmitter, possibly in a UPS box on its way to the other side of the country?
Also, you can buy these GPS tracking devices, yourself. I believe they use GSM or CDMA cell networks to report in. Did I mention that the aforementioned hypothetical jammer I may or may not have played with also sported CDMA and GSM jamming?
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