Filed under: Civil Rights, Constitution, Government, Privacy, tech, Wall Street Journal
From the Wall Street Journal:
The Supreme Court’s recent ruling overturning the warrantless use of GPS tracking devices has caused a “sea change” inside the U.S. Justice Department, according to FBI General Counsel Andrew Weissmann.
Mr. Weissmann, speaking at a University of San Francisco conference called “Big Brother in the 21st Century” on Friday, said that the court ruling prompted the FBI to turn off about 3,000 GPS tracking devices that were in use.
Good lord. 3,000.
And that’s how many they were *admitting* to. Do you honestly believe that was all of them? Or that there were 3,000 instances where such routine infringement of the rights of Americans was warranted (well, so to speak)?
And, of course, this is just one small aspect of our increasing surveillance society.
Good lord.
Jim Downey
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Wow. Just. Wow.
Comment by Shari Taylor February 26, 2012 @ 3:37 pm