EFF to Court: Lifetime GPS Tracking Violates the Fourth Amendment

Re:EFF to Court: Lifetime GPS Tracking Violates the Fourth A... by scrupulusalbion on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @03:33PM (#10780217)

Requiring someone to wear an ankle monitor for the rest of their life sounds bonkers. You would either have to give him/her the charger or mandate that he/she return to a police station or court house to have the device recharged perhaps every month. If you gave them the charger, couldn't the person just "forget" to charge the device and then drive out of state?

From the Wikipedia page on Ankle Monitors [0]:

>GPS units are similar in design, but the offender also carries a GPS cell phone unit that receives a signal from the ankle unit, or both functions may be combined into one ankle unit. Persons subject to a restraining order may also be subject to GPS monitoring.

[0] = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankle_monitor

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Re:EFF to Court: Lifetime GPS Tracking Violates the Fourth A... by superuser2 on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @04:23PM (#10780480)

Parolees are already subject to many arcane obligations, such as a rigid schedule of meetings and phone calls with the parole officer. The punishment for a single failure is going back to prison for the remainder of the sentence. You could presumably make regular charging of the device a similar requirement. Low battery indicator for too long = back to life in prison.

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Re:EFF to Court: Lifetime GPS Tracking Violates the Fourth A... by biafra on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @04:33AM (#10782623)

But that seems unjust. Since in this case they served their sentence already.

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