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U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rule that GPS installation and tracking of a vehicle constitutes a search, but the justices disagree on rationale - are lines being drawn on privacy rights and new technology?

• Proskauer Rose LLP
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• USA
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• January 23 2012

In a narrowly-drawn majority opinion, the United States Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Antoine Jones that the Government’s attachment of a GPS-tracking device to a vehicle, and the subsequent monitoring of the movements of that vehicle on public streets, constitutes a search