{"id":2793,"date":"2007-02-09T22:52:30","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T22:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2793"},"modified":"2007-02-09T22:52:30","modified_gmt":"2007-02-09T22:52:30","slug":"gps_spying_case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2793","title":{"rendered":"GPS Spying Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconvalleywatcher.com\/mt\/archives\/2007\/02\/2907_7th_circui.php\">Tom Foremski<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that police can place a GPS tracking unit on a suspect&#8217;s car without obtaining a search warrant. In US v Garcia (2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 2272), decided Feb. 2, Judge Richard Posner found that such a device was a mere &#8220;augmentation&#8221; of police officers&#8217; natural ability to follow a car.<br \/><Br>In the Garcia case, an information alerted police that Garcia used meth with her, said he intended to resume producing meth, and was taped on a security camera buying chemicals to make meth. The police found his car and attached a GPS tracking device. When they retrieved the device, they discovered that he had visited a large tract of land. They obtained consent from the owner to search the land and found a meth lab. As they were searching, Garcia drove up. They searched his car and found additional evidence against him.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Foremski: The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that police can place a GPS tracking unit on a suspect&#8217;s car without obtaining a search warrant. In US v Garcia (2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 2272), decided Feb. 2, Judge Richard Posner found that such a device was a mere &#8220;augmentation&#8221; of police officers&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,14,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}