GPS tracking blasted

In a federal court case involving a man who received life in prison for a drug charge, civil liberties groups are challenging authorities' abuse of GPS trackers.

In some states, police have been secretly attaching GPS trackers to suspects' cars - with no warrant. This plainly violates the Fourth Amendment's safeguard against warrantless searches, of course. (Like the authorities are counting?)

Prosecutors say GPS tracking is no different from police's physical surveillance. But it's not as if police have unlimited rights to conduct surveillance - as the Maryland Police State Police spying scandal shows.

The American public has a reasonable expectation of privacy in their travels. Our constitutional system is supposed to allow no tracking of our movements without a warrant. That is the Constitution. Authorities don't get to decide that the Bill of Rights doesn't apply.

(Source: http://www.examiner.com/a-1882655~Police_use_of_warrantless_GPS_tracking_challenged.html)