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Re:Cops won’t need a warrant to pull the data off an autonom... by freeflight on Saturday February 03, 2018 @11:54AM (#16298343)
A weirdly relevant case from Switzerland [0]. The Swiss court ruled that it's totally legal to put GPS trackers on other peoples cars to track them.

The court argued that a car is so public and visible that the GPS tracker is only collecting "public knowledge" anyway.

[0] https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/panorama/vermischtes/wenn-am-au...

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Re:Cops won’t need a warrant to pull the data off an autonom... by ramblenode on Saturday February 03, 2018 @06:40PM (#16300351)
In the US, the SCOTUS has ruled differently: that attaching a GPS tracking device to a car constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment and requires a warrant. See US v. Jones (2012) and Grady v. North Carolina (2015).
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