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Posted on 01 May 2011 by John Johnson

Police Downloading Your Data off Your Phone After Pulling You Over -- A Nightmare Reality

By Juan Cole

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President Barack Obama is actually siding with police who want to use GPS devices to track you without a warrant. It always disturbed me when on “Star Trek” the captain asked the ship’s computer where a crew member was and was told the person’s exact location. Even civilians such as the ship’s physician and the empathy counselor were not immune from these inquiries, generic combigan, the answers to which could after all sometimes have been embarrassing. Is America heading toward being one big star ship, Compare combigan prices, where government officials can casually inquire at will into our whereabouts and private doings.

Among the many elements of the Obama administration that have disappointed civil libertarians is its interest in spying on Americans, buy combigan without prescription. The Bush administration had instituted massive warrantless wiretapping and gathering of telephone records, with the complicity of most telecom corporations. Those who care about the Bill of Rights had hoped that Eric Holder’s Department of Justice would take a stand for the Fourth Amendment, real combigan without prescription, which should be on the endangered species list along with the golden tree frog and the St. Helena dragonet. Buy combigan in canada, The administration is appealing a Washington, D.C., federal appeals court ruling that threw out the case that law enforcement had built against a suspected cocaine distributor because the officers attached a global positioning satellite tracking device to his automobile without a warrant and then followed his movements for a whole month. Buy combigan without prescription, That they tracked the suspect for so long without bothering to involve a judge was one basis for the ruling.

Supporters of warrantless surveillance of this sort argue that a person’s movements in public are not protected by the Fourth Amendment, find discount combigan. But GPS tracking is very precise and can follow a car everywhere--onto farms or estates and into enclosed garages on private property. If there is evidence that a crime is being committed in, Combigan non prescription, say, a garage, then a warrant should be obtained from a judge. In the absence of such evidence it is unconstitutional for the government to monitor the precise location of a piece of private property being driven on or parked on private property, find cheap combigan.

It should be remembered that it is perfectly possible for the police to make a mistake or act maliciously and to monitor someone who is innocent, buy combigan without prescription. The ACLU charges that these practices are increasingly common. If police and other security personnel are allowed to engage in domestic surveillance of this sort without a court warrant, Buy generic combigan online, they can start following large numbers of innocent people and learn details of their private lives. Just this year, Tacoma, Wash., combigan online sale, police engaged in unconstitutional surveillance of anti-war activists, using an employee at a military base, Combigan us, which is even more troubling. Blanket permission for law enforcement to conduct warrantless GPS tracking of activists could reveal their private peccadilloes, which in turn could be used to blackmail them. Buy combigan without prescription, Another egregious case is that of college student Yasir Afifi, who found an FBI tracking device on his automobile during an oil change. Afifi, buy combigan online australia, from a mixed American and Egyptian heritage, has no known associations with radicals, Discount combigan no rx, but his father had been active in the local Muslim community until his death last year and the family sends remittances to relatives in Egypt, a pattern of behavior that may have triggered the surveillance. Disturbingly, the federal Ninth District Court of Appeals found that the FBI had a right to put the device on Afifi’s car as it sat in his driveway, cheap combigan tablets. This ruling violates the principle of “curtilage,” which holds that the area immediately around a person’s house is protected from unreasonable search by the Fourth Amendment. Combigan online review, In a fiery dissent, Judge Alex Kozinski complained that his colleagues’ decision gives “the government the power to track the movements of every one of us, every day of our lives.” It is not known whether the FBI, who monitored Afifi for three to six months, discount combigan without prescription, ever obtained a court warrant or, if so, Pharmacy combigan, how many months it covered.

In the Washington, D.C., appellate court decision, handed down last fall, Judge Douglas H, buy combigan without prescription. Ginsburg shot down the argument that GPS tracking was like tailing a suspect in public. He wrote, “We hold the whole of a person’s movements over the course of a month is not actually exposed to the public because the likelihood a stranger would observe all those movements is not just remote, buy combigan online without prescription, it is essentially nil.”

The decision made a distinction between a brief initial evidence-gathering foray and an intensive monthlong act of spying: “It is one thing for a passerby to observe or even to follow someone during a single journey as he goes to the market or returns home from work. It is another thing entirely for that stranger to pick up the scent again the next day and the day after that, Cheapest generic combigan online, week in and week out, dogging his prey until he has identified all the places, people, amusements, cheap combigan internet, and chores that make up that person’s hitherto private routine.”

Part of what defines public and private is a reasonable citizen’s expectations. You wouldn’t expect all your movements for a month to be public, Buy combigan online, even if they were in an automobile. Buy combigan without prescription, It is that understandable expectation of privacy that brings the Fourth Amendment into play. Ginsburg continued, “A reasonable person does not expect anyone to monitor and retain a record of every time he drives his car, including his origin, route, destination, and each place he stops and how long he stays there; rather, he expects each of those movements to remain disconnected and anonymous.” The full court of nine judges upheld the three-judge panel’s decision to throw out the case, which was against nightclub owner Antoine Jones.

The federal rulings so far on GPS tracking have been all over the map, so to speak, and that the Fourth Amendment will meaningfully survive the almost cosmic electronic surveillance capabilities of our burgeoning national security state is not at all clear. So far many of our eminent federal judges seem perfectly content with having police officers sneak around in our driveways, with allowing them to attach tracking devices to our private property, and with permitting them then to monitor everywhere we go and everyone we visit, without a warrant, for months at a time.

Judge Ginsburg and two colleagues are so far all that stand in the way of this dystopian future becoming our present reality. Unfortunately, because Obama and Holder disagree with Ginsburg, his principled arguments will prevail only if they are permitted to do so by the likes of Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. Welcome to Starship Amerika.