FBI court decision turned off 3000 GPS bugs, now can't find them
a Few days ago, the U.S. Supreme court ruled unconstitutional the use of tracking GPS-devices without a court order and decided to discontinue the practice. Since the court decision came into force immediately, the Federal Bureau of investigation was forced on the same day, disable the signal reception from the approximately 3,000 active GPS bugs.
The Supreme court's decision has caused serious consequences, which said the chief legal adviser of FBI Andrew Weissmann (Andrew Weissmann) at a scientific conference at the University of San Francisco. It turns out that FBI experts had problems with the collection of bugs that they found. In some cases, says Weissmann even had to ask the court for the issuance of temporary orders for surveillance, just to briefly turn on the bug.
Device homemade GPS bug the FBI installs under the vehicle
A year ago habré was published the story of how an American student of Arab origin found under the vehicle a strange device, which upon closer study proved to be a tracking device the FBI. Then he called the agents demanding the return of Federal property. This is not an isolated case, the same bug on his car a few years ago found an activist for the rights of animals Katie Thomas. As we now know, only in the USA were actively used about 3,000 such devices — they are all disabled by the Supreme court.
According to Weissmann, lawyers, the FBI is now "fighting" for the defense of other conventional rights investigators. For example, they want to ensure that removing the lid of a garbage can near the house of the suspect will not be recognized by the court as a violation of his private life. Such concerns lawyers the FBI is very real, considering, what position was taken by the Supreme court in the case of covert use of GPS-bugs — he decided that a citizen has the right to expect preservation of secret information about the totality of his movements, even if these moves were made publicly, as in the case of a car. A similar dilemma arises with waste in the tank, which sort of represents the private information, though located in a public place (the street).
Article based on information from habrahabr.ru
The Supreme court's decision has caused serious consequences, which said the chief legal adviser of FBI Andrew Weissmann (Andrew Weissmann) at a scientific conference at the University of San Francisco. It turns out that FBI experts had problems with the collection of bugs that they found. In some cases, says Weissmann even had to ask the court for the issuance of temporary orders for surveillance, just to briefly turn on the bug.
Device homemade GPS bug the FBI installs under the vehicle
A year ago habré was published the story of how an American student of Arab origin found under the vehicle a strange device, which upon closer study proved to be a tracking device the FBI. Then he called the agents demanding the return of Federal property. This is not an isolated case, the same bug on his car a few years ago found an activist for the rights of animals Katie Thomas. As we now know, only in the USA were actively used about 3,000 such devices — they are all disabled by the Supreme court.
According to Weissmann, lawyers, the FBI is now "fighting" for the defense of other conventional rights investigators. For example, they want to ensure that removing the lid of a garbage can near the house of the suspect will not be recognized by the court as a violation of his private life. Such concerns lawyers the FBI is very real, considering, what position was taken by the Supreme court in the case of covert use of GPS-bugs — he decided that a citizen has the right to expect preservation of secret information about the totality of his movements, even if these moves were made publicly, as in the case of a car. A similar dilemma arises with waste in the tank, which sort of represents the private information, though located in a public place (the street).
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