Aug
27
Court allows agents to secretly put GPS trackers on cars
Privacy is going to be one of the big Supreme Court issues of the modern time. We’ve moved past privacy as it relates to abortion issues (well, sort of). Now it’s going to be about things like this. Technology gives police offers dozens of ways of tracking people without their knowledge. What will be permissible? What won’t fly?
Everyone has a right to keep secrets. At some level, there’s a question of legality. On another level, there’s a question of our social fabric. Who wants to live in a world where it’s so easy to be spied upon? And that issue won’t get resolved by any court.
