{"id":50705,"date":"2019-08-30T03:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T07:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=50705"},"modified":"2019-08-29T14:21:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T18:21:24","slug":"eff-sues-homeland-security-over-illegal-gps-vehicle-trackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/08\/30\/eff-sues-homeland-security-over-illegal-gps-vehicle-trackers\/","title":{"rendered":"EFF sues Homeland Security over illegal GPS vehicle trackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2019\/08\/28\/eff_cmp_gps\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Kieren McCarthy<\/a> on a recent lawsuit by the Electronic Frontiers Foundation:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Department-of-Homeland-Security-seal.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Department-of-Homeland-Security-seal-480x480.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-50706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Department-of-Homeland-Security-seal-480x480.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Department-of-Homeland-Security-seal-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Department-of-Homeland-Security-seal-50x50.png 50w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Department-of-Homeland-Security-seal.png 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has sued the US Department of Homeland Security to find out more about a program where, it is claimed, officers secretly stick GPS trackers on vehicles they are suspicious of as they come through the border.<\/p>\n<p>The EFF has made repeated freedom of information act (FoIA) requests about the program&#8217;s policies but has been stonewalled, with Homeland Security&#8217;s responses claiming any information would contain &#8220;sensitive information&#8221; that could lead to &#8220;circumvention of the law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The foundation&#8217;s main concern is that Homeland Security is carrying out its secret tracking without a warrant, or even anything beyond a single officer&#8217;s suspicion. And it points to a recent US Supreme Court decision where it ruled that warrantless GPS tracking was unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the program came to light last year when customs officers revealed in court filings that they had used GPS trackers without a warrant at the border. Since then the EFF has tried to find out what the policies and procedures are for deciding when a vehicle can be tagged. The relevant authorities have not been keen to go into any detail.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s another legal precedent too: a California court ruled that government officials&#8217; use of GPS devices to track two suspected drug dealers without getting a warrant violated the Supreme Court decision, made in 2012, and was government misconduct.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kieren McCarthy on a recent lawsuit by the Electronic Frontiers Foundation: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has sued the US Department of Homeland Security to find out more about a program where, it is claimed, officers secretly stick GPS trackers on vehicles they are suspicious of as they come through the border. The EFF has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,9,10,13],"tags":[316,111,169,334,911],"class_list":["post-50705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-law","category-liberty","category-usa","tag-borders","tag-cars","tag-eff","tag-security","tag-surveillance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-dbP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50707,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50705\/revisions\/50707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}