So, law enforcement and the Justice Department can come on to your property, place an electronic device on your vehicle, and track your travels covertly without a warrant or any kind of justification what so ever?
David Rivkin, a former Justice Department attorney thinks this is legal. He says that a person cannot automatically expect privacy just because something is on private property.
"You have to take measures -- to build a fence, to put the car in the garage" or post a no-trespassing sign, he said. "If you don't do that, you're not going to get the privacy."
Really David? So I can place a GPS unit on your vehicle while it sits in your driveway and track you when you leave? And you would be fine with that? Or, does that only apply to law enforcement? I don't know where you grew up but where I am from that is trespassing and liable to get a load of buckshot whistling around you if you are caught. What part of Private Property don't you understand David?
I am all for giving law enforcement the tools to do their job but they also have to follow the rules, not just make up new ones and then take them to the courts for approval. What's next? Placing monitoring devices on phone lines and cable internet access? They are on the outside of your house and according to this ruling, readily accessible to the public unless you build a fence or post No Trespassing signage. What is reasonably private anymore? The interpretation from a legal standpoint is getting smaller and smaller while the rights of the citizenry are being slowly and nefariously trod upon in the name of justice. In this case they got their perpetrator, but at what cost to the average citizens expectation of privacy and liberties? One step closer to a police state or a safer state to live in? You be the judge!
Meanwhile, back in The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court's jurisdiction, someone bugged the pooch!
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