28 Sep, 2011
Debate over GPS devices on suspects’ cars spurs ‘Big Brother’ concerns – Inside Bay Area
A legal case with implications that some say spring straight from the pages of George Orwell’s “1984” is headed to the Supreme Court in November, and its outcome could have a major effect on one of the Bay Area’s biggest murder cases in the past decade.
Justices are being asked to decide whether law enforcement officers need a warrant to hide GPS devices on suspects’ cars to track their movements using satellites and computers.
The case pits constitutional rights of privacy and protection from unfair police tactics against high-tech government surveillance. It has already drawn analogies to the “Big Brother”-type government intrusion Orwell envisioned in his novel.
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