{"id":6105,"date":"2011-10-04T16:29:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T15:39:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T15:39:45","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6105","title":{"rendered":"Wired.com: \u201cGPS Inventor Urges Supreme Court to Reject \u2018Automated,\u2019 Warrantless Surveillance\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2011\/10\/gps-inventor-surveillance\/\">GPS Inventor Urges Supreme Court to Reject \u2018Automated,\u2019 Warrantless Surveillance<\/a> by David Kravets:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The principal inventor of the Global Positioning System is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to renounce the Obama administration\u2019s position that it may affix GPS devices to vehicles and track their every move without a court warrant.<\/p>\n<p>Roger L. Easton, awarded the National Medal of Technology in 2006, joined the Center for Democracy &amp; Technology, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and other academics in a friend-of-the-court brief lodged Monday in one of the biggest Fourth Amendment cases in a decade \u2014 one weighing the collision of privacy, technology and the Constitution. The justices are scheduled to argue the case Nov. 9.<\/p>\n<p>Easton, now 90 and the principal inventor and developer of the Timation Satellite Navigation System at the Naval Research Laboratory more than five decades ago, and the others are telling the high court that its precedent on the topic is outdated, and the government\u2019s reliance on it should be rejected.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6105\">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-6105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6105","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=6105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}