Comments on: More on the Supreme Court ruling forcing FBI to turn off 3,000 GPS trackers

By: Petzl

Petzl — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 04:12:00 +0000

Always amazed when Scalia does the right thing. But then he’s historically been known to show some respect for civil rights. I give the guy props. Never expect any ruling resembling independent thought from the likes of the Roberts/Alito/Thomas hivemind.

By: That_Anonymous_Coward

That_Anonymous_Coward — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 07:18:00 +0000

He is also probably cranky that they are going to have to give up the team building trip to 6 Flags so they can afford to track down all the GPS trackers they can’t remember where they put….

By: Shablap

Shablap — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 06:11:00 +0000

I think this is specific to devices attached by…

By: Shablap

Shablap — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 06:09:00 +0000

I hear that brother, shiiiiii+

You have many precedents to call on if you need them one day

By: Manuel Smirnoff

Manuel Smirnoff — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:39:00 +0000

Why do they have to just stop? Why do they not have to go to prison for their breaches of the Constitution? Can I get the same benefit if I break the law? This country needs to stop coddling criminals, and throw some FBI ass in jail.

By: fadetomute

fadetomute — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:29:00 +0000

what about their requisitioning gps data from ‘smart car’ devices provided by car makers and aftermarket providers?

By: Itsumishi

Itsumishi — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:29:00 +0000

What the quote above would have sounded like if reading the thoughts of Mr Mueller:
“Trackers enabled us to utilize resources elsewhere, so it is going have an impact on the work that we do but of course we will of course be more sneaky about using them and pretend to comply with the ruling.”

By: phisrow

phisrow — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:06:00 +0000

That was, actually, surprisingly restrained by the standards of the “But the rule of law means tying the hands of our brave troops while terrorists murder your children!!!” school of whining…

In other news: FBI director, despite years in law enforcement, apparently sees no irony in complaining about how inconvenient it is to obey the law.

By: tbeckett

tbeckett — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 02:58:00 +0000

What’s so damned hard about getting a warrant before using a tracking device?

By: That_Anonymous_Coward

That_Anonymous_Coward — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 02:36:00 +0000

As he walked away from the podium Director Muellerwas overheard muttering something about how the GPS trackers places on the vehicles of the Justices had not lead to anything they could use to leverage a ruling in their favor.