Difference between revisions of "GPS Evidence and the Fourth Amendment"

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==Background==
 
==Background==
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Global Positioning System (GPS) is a system of satellites in outer space that provide detailed information about the position and time of anyone on the Earth. The system is maintained by the United States Government. Anyone with a GPS receiver can track their location location to within XX using the GPS system.
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Global Positioning System (GPS) is a system of satellites in outer space that provide detailed information about the position and time of anyone on the Earth. The system is maintained by the United States Government. Anyone with a GPS receiver can track their location location to within a few meters or less using the GPS system.
  
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Original civilian service for GPS devices was significantly downgraded. However, under Bill Clinton, civilians began to receive the most accurate GPS service available.  
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Originally civilian service for GPS devices was significantly downgraded. However, under Bill Clinton, civilians began to receive the most accurate GPS service available.  
  
 
GPS may be accurate to within a few meters. However, accuracy varies on the quality of the receiving device. Some devices may be accurate to within a few centimeters.
 
GPS may be accurate to within a few meters. However, accuracy varies on the quality of the receiving device. Some devices may be accurate to within a few centimeters.
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Since GPS has the power to tell an individual exactly where a tracking device is at any given time the use of GPS devices has flourished as an investigatory device in many parts of the United States.
 
Since GPS has the power to tell an individual exactly where a tracking device is at any given time the use of GPS devices has flourished as an investigatory device in many parts of the United States.
  
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Local Courts are still grappling with whether the use of a GPS device over a long period of time violates a defendant's right to be free of warrantless searches and seizures.
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Local courts are still grappling with whether the use of a GPS device over a long period of time violates a defendant's right to be free of warrantless searches and seizures.
  
 
==GPS and the Fourth Amendment==
 
==GPS and the Fourth Amendment==

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