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Rethinking Gps Devices And Fourth Amendment Rights, Allison W. Chan
Rethinking Gps Devices And Fourth Amendment Rights, Allison W. Chan
Allison W Chan
Technology advances rapidly. Constant innovation, however, comes at a cost. Law enforcement is able to engage in wholesale surveillance of suspects by attaching Global Positioning System (“GPS”) devices to their vehicles. Attaching GPS devices to those vehicles has few, if any, restrictions. Law enforcement does not need a warrant. Officers may legally attach a GPS device anytime a vehicle is in “public space.” However, the problem is that courts have been unable to agree on what constitutes public space, especially with regards to residential curtilage. In 2010, the Ninth Circuit held in United States v. Pineda Moreno, 591 F.3d 1212 …