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Re:Woman catches state police attaching tracker to her car, ... by teknopaul on Monday May 31, 2021 @01:44PM (#27346495)
Of course they forfeit ownership, if this were not the case, you could stick and a sticker on cop cars and expect them to return the sticker to you without damaging it. Its not grafitti officer I'm just leaving my paint here, please give it back soon. The bin man's life would be complicated if everyone still owns what they put in the bin or throw in a river.

If cops put a tracker on someone's car they can expect the same response to a bird shit on the windscreen.

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Re:Woman catches state police attaching tracker to her car, ... by rdtsc on Monday May 31, 2021 @03:05PM (#27347185)
Why a sticker and not a tracking device? That’s even better and you can then track their positions across town.

I knew someone who had done that in a small town. The batteries didn’t last long but it was a “fun” hacking experiment. Tracking was just a basic transmitter which transmitted a ping. The idea was to get a reasonable idea a cop car was “nearby”.

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