{"id":5877,"date":"2011-08-08T07:21:27","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T07:21:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T07:21:27","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5877","title":{"rendered":"Salon.com: &#8220;Big Brother is tracking you: GPS and the 4th Amendment&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salon.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/the_supreme_court\/?story=\/politics\/war_room\/2011\/08\/08\/gps_crime_report\">Big Brother is tracking you: GPS and the 4th Amendment<\/a> by Jordan Smith:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When is a search not a search?<\/p>\n<p>Or, more pointedly: When are electronic or other forms of surveillance of an individual considered a search under the Fourth Amendment &#8212; thus requiring a valid warrant to conduct such surveillance in a manner that protects the individual from &#8220;unlawful search and seizure&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>How the U.S. Supreme Court answers that question, in a case on its docket for the term starting in October, will have far-reaching implications for the power of government and for the privacy of individuals, according to lawyers and privacy rights advocates.<\/p>\n<p>If the Court holds that warrants are not required for this type of surveillance, it could mean &#8220;the technological death of the Fourth Amendment,\u201d warns Arkansas-based attorney John Wesley Hall, a leading Fourth Amendment expert who also writes a blog and runs a website.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5877\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}