No Search Warrant?? Police track with GPS

A California computer salesman was having his car serviced when the technician found a strange wire hanging out from under the car. The proceeded to remove the attached device and the technician put a picture of the device online to find out what it was. Several days later the FBI was at his door wanting their tracking device back.
My question -- Is this simply a matter of tailing a suspect - or - are we ALL now subject to such devices being secreted on us so god knows who knows our every move.
The courts currently say a search warrant isn't needed - though it is up for appeal -
What do you think?

 

Ever feel like you're being watched?

 

Great - thanks Fool - I'll jump in there.

 

I'm sure all their tactics are'nt legal,but I doubt they just picked him at random. Makes you wonder what he was up to.

 

They spelled guaranteed wrong,they can't be that smart

 

you dont need to be smart with double oo buck shot..

 

Well,you got me there

 

+1

 

ROFLMAO

I find this stuff to be funny funny shit...

IF you have a cell phone, from the mid 90's on, you don't need to worry about being tracked by gps... BECAUSE YOU ARE... lol

If your phone has a battery (with power in it) attached to it, even while turned off, you can be tracked by it.

As for the story itself... if it isn't just yet another case of a revamped urban legend, then the idea that the fbi would show up and ask for it back is more then a tad fucked... but what would be even more fucked is if someone actually complied with their request to return it.

It does NOT matter if your vehicle is parked in a public space or a private one, it is still your private vehicle. This is pretty simple to figure out you know... If it was not this way, a cop would just wait til someone parked in public, and then search their vehicle at will... And there would be NOTHING that could be done about it...

But the laws do not support that...

This doesn't mean they (any LEO) couldn't put a tracker on your car and use it to follow and track your movements, but they wouldn't be able to use that specific info (your location according to the tracker) in court... They could however use info they discovered while tracking you... IE, They couldn't say, oh he went and parked at a drug dealers house for an hour... but they could wait til you left a drug dealers house and stop you, while claiming it was a random stop... (which on a side note, is a good reason to be polite to LEO's in order to NOT give them legal reason to search).

Back to the story though... There is NO scenario in which they FBI would have a legal leg to stand on, in requesting their equipment back unless it could be shown they had a legal search warrant (tracking warrant??) for it.

BTW... most cars ARE built with gps trackers these days, and although I'm not sure about here (canada), I know that under the homeland security rules in the US, they CAN access those records (including real time ones) with a search warrant without you ever being told.