Supreme Court Sees Shades of 1984 in Unchecked GPS Tracking
by David Cravets
WIRED
November 8, 2011


WASHINGTON — A number of Supreme Court justices invoked the specter of Big Brother while hearing arguments Tuesday over whether the police may secretly attach GPS devices on Americans' cars without getting a probable-cause warrant.

While many justices said the concept was unsettling, the high court gave no clear indication on how it will rule in what is arguably one of the biggest Fourth Amendment cases in the computer age. The Obama administration maintains that Americans have no privacy rights when it comes to their movements in public...

 

 

 RASPUTIN wrote: 

You know, I have heard parents kidding around saying stuff like that to their kids and never gave it much thought. Just chalked it up to innocuous joking, but I see your point. Children get enough of being drummed in their head that any dealings with police are bad and should be avoided at all cost through their peers they don't need it further perpetuated by their parents. Now granted, philosophically I preach that the less you are in the company of police and lawyers, the better you are probably living your life, but that is a different subject.

 RASPUTIN wrote: 
Mom never threatened me about youse. But youse had those guns, and I have always had an irrational fear of them.

But where's my flashlight and badge? Huh? Where!

"Badges? We don't need no stinking badges."  —Blazing Saddles, 1974

 

 

 RASPUTIN wrote: 



Indeed.

 Beaker wrote: 
... said the King of Hate aka The Teflon Troll

Here's the deal. The next time I'm in a Walmart buying a bunch of small LED flashlights on sale so I can hand them out to kids with a little plastic sheriff's badge, shake their hands and tell them I'm glad to see them, you in your infinite wisdom tell your kid, "See, here comes a deputy. If you don't start acting right I'll tell him to take you to jail." I walk up and smack you right in the pie hole for being an idiot, don't bother calling in a complaint on me. Reason being...you ARE an idiot for telling a kid that. You can take your Those Lovable Policeman thread and shove it right up your ass.

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