The Giant Noodle
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Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn't violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway — and no reasonable expectation that the government isn't tracking your movements.
That is the bizarre — and scary — rule that now applies in California and eight other Western states. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which covers this vast jurisdiction, recently decided the government can monitor you in this way virtually anytime it wants — with no need for a search warrant. (See a TIME photoessay on Cannabis Culture.)
It is a dangerous decision — one that, as the dissenting judges warned, could turn America into the sort of totalitarian state imagined by George Orwell. It is particularly offensive because the judges added insult to injury with some shocking class bias: the little personal privacy that still exists, the court suggested, should belong mainly to the rich.
That's an easy one to fix. Disconnect battery, find black box, open with screwdriver, remove circuitry, reconnect battery, start car, flip off government officials.I read somewhere that the black boxes on vehicles will have the ability to broadcast GPS data at some point. I can't wait for the government to get their hands on that information. Imagine being taxed per mile driven, or being mailed a speeding ticket because your GPS unit registered a higher-than-legal speed limit and broadcasted it to the police.
That's an easy one to fix. Disconnect battery, find black box, open with screwdriver, remove circuitry, reconnect battery, start car, flip off government officials.
Government isnt that dumb, they'll make maufactures put the said GPS into vehicles in away you'll have to remove other pieces in order to get to it and then the housing that contains the GPS will have special screws which then you have to go on the net to find the tool (which will be a bitch to find) in order to unscrew the said screws.
What would be the point of following someone around like that?
Bait Car? Parole violation?
I don't see how it would matter to me.
*ooooh noooo! She's going to . . . . class . . . . the grocery store . . . . *gaaaaasp* the gas station!*
:rofl
I'd feel sorry for the person who has to track me.
I believe if carry a cell phone on your person, you can be tracked as well.
It's still pretty easy, find the "kill switches" in the circuit and bypass. The same thing was said about pollution controls in vehicles and your average "redneck" can "open up" an exhast/fuel system in no time.Government isnt that dumb, they'll make maufactures put the said GPS into vehicles in away you'll have to remove other pieces in order to get to it and then the housing that contains the GPS will have special screws which then you have to go on the net to find the tool (which will be a bitch to find) in order to unscrew the said screws.
It's still pretty easy, find the "kill switches" in the circuit and bypass. The same thing was said about pollution controls in vehicles and your average "redneck" can "open up" an exhast/fuel system in no time.
This just is NOT America anymore!!!!
Read more: The Government's New Right to Track Your Every Move With GPS - TIME
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which covers this vast jurisdiction, recently decided the government can monitor you in this way virtually anytime it wants — with no need for a search warrant.
Read more: The Government's New Right to Track Your Every Move With GPS - TIME
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True, I suspect a workaround will soon emerge in the barrio. I have a couple of amigos here who will help my vehicle "pass" an emissions test in the event that I should happen to fail one elsewhere.It's still pretty easy, find the "kill switches" in the circuit and bypass. The same thing was said about pollution controls in vehicles and your average "redneck" can "open up" an exhast/fuel system in no time.
I know it, just about every time my vehicle acts up it's some pollution control device.I HATE the enivornment controlls that are in my truck. My engine light has been on for three months because of those things malfunctioning, luckly my mechanic says its no big deal.
Yep. And agree on the jerry rigging part. In a free society that should never be a necessity.True, I suspect a workaround will soon emerge in the barrio. I have a couple of amigos here who will help my vehicle "pass" an emissions test in the event that I should happen to fail one elsewhere.
Still, I'm not terribly thrilled at the idea of having to jury rig my car.
It's still pretty easy, find the "kill switches" in the circuit and bypass. The same thing was said about pollution controls in vehicles and your average "redneck" can "open up" an exhast/fuel system in no time.
I read somewhere that the black boxes on vehicles will have the ability to broadcast GPS data at some point. I can't wait for the government to get their hands on that information. Imagine being taxed per mile driven, or being mailed a speeding ticket because your GPS unit registered a higher-than-legal speed limit and broadcasted it to the police.
This just is NOT America anymore!!!!
The Government's New Right to Track Your Every Move With GPS - TIME[/url]
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What would be the point of following someone around like that?
Bait Car? Parole violation?
I don't see how it would matter to me.
*ooooh noooo! She's going to . . . . class . . . . the grocery store . . . . *gaaaaasp* the gas station!*
:rofl
I'd feel sorry for the person who has to track me.
Government isnt that dumb, they'll make maufactures put the said GPS into vehicles in away you'll have to remove other pieces in order to get to it and then the housing that contains the GPS will have special screws which then you have to go on the net to find the tool (which will be a bitch to find) in order to unscrew the said screws.
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