{"id":24536,"date":"2012-01-27T21:20:51","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T21:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-tester.blawgcloud.com\/supreme-court-limits-invasions-privacy\/"},"modified":"2012-01-27T21:20:51","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T21:20:51","slug":"supreme-court-limits-invasions-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webblawmaine.com\/blog\/supreme-court-limits-invasions-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court limits invasions of privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-819\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webblawmaine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/supreme-court-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"supreme-court-300x237\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" \/>This week the Supreme Court, in United States v. Jones, ___ US ___ (2012), decided that placing a GPS on a person&#8217;s car and tracking to movements is a search that requires a warrant.\u00a0 This is an important decision for several reasons.\u00a0 First, changes in modern technology make it easier for government to intrude on our privacy.\u00a0\u00a0 Second, it made it clear that there are two ways to analyze when a search warrant is needed.\u00a0 Third, it shows that the Court may change its views of the Fourth Amendment as technology becomes more invasive of our privacy.<\/p>\n<p>The facts were that Mr. Jones was suspected of drug dealing.\u00a0 Drug agents got a warrant to place a GPS on his car by a certain date in Washington, DC.\u00a0 They did not put the GPS on the car as specified in the warrant.\u00a0 Instead, they found the car in Maryland and put the GPS on the car after the warrant date.\u00a0 They tracked every move his car made for four weeks.\u00a0 Using the GPS information agents found evidence that arguably tied Jones to drugs and money.\u00a0 They charged him in a drug trafficking conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p>Jones moved to suppress the evidence (prohibit the government from using it at trial.)\u00a0 He argued that placing the GPS on his car was a search, and that the search was illegal without a warrant.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webblawmaine.com\/blog\/supreme-court-limits-invasions-privacy\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Supreme Court limits invasions of privacy\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week the Supreme Court, in United States v. 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