{"id":26154,"date":"2017-03-08T22:12:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T03:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26154"},"modified":"2017-03-09T07:15:19","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T12:15:19","slug":"techdirt-court-tells-cops-they-cant-use-gps-data-gathered-after-suspect-they-were-tracking-sold-the-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26154","title":{"rendered":"techdirt: Court Tells Cops They Can’t Use GPS Data Gathered After Suspect They Were Tracking Sold The Vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"

techdirt: Court Tells Cops They Can’t Use GPS Data Gathered After Suspect They Were Tracking Sold The Vehicle<\/a> by Tim Cushing:
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This might be laziness. Or ineptness. Or just another indicator of how much citizens’ rights mean to their public servants. Whatever it is, it’s definitely not good policing. A drug bust that fortuitously rolled into the lap of the Colorado Springs Police Department has now rolled back out of it, thanks to a Colorado federal court. (via Brad Heath)<\/p>\n

Here’s the story. The PD suspected someone known as “S.B.” to be engaged in drug trafficking. S.B. owned a white BMW that was apparently used during drug deals. Detectives obtained a warrant to place a GPS locator on the car and track its location for 60 days.<\/p>\n

Three weeks after the tracking device was placed on the vehicle, detectives noticed the car’s rims had been removed and a “For Sale” sign placed in its window. A couple of weeks after that, the car’s location data shifted dramatically. It was no longer spending a great deal of time parked in S.B.’s driveway. It was spending a majority of its time at a new address — one with no association to S.B. and the location data previously obtained.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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