Supreme Court to rule on constitutionality of warrantless GPS tracking

Published 11 November 2011

On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case (United States v. Jones) in which the United States argued that the Fourth Amendment does not prohibit the government from using GPS tracking to monitor a suspect’s movements on public streets. Some legal scholars say that because a previous verdict sanctioned beeper tracking, the Court may well rule in favor of the government, declaring the warrantless GPS tracking does not violate a person’s constitutional right to privacy.

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