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April 21st, 2010, 08:38 PM
#11
Regarding GPS devices and cars... Last year, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (the highest state court) ruled that Police were allowed to use covert GPS devices to track a target's location, but they must obtain a search warrant first.
The article on "Security, Privacy, and the Law"
The SJC's decision in PDF from the same website
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April 22nd, 2010, 06:57 AM
#12
That sounds like a perfectly reasonable application of existing law to new technology, something that the law (government & judiciary) is not usually noted for. Part of the problem seems to be that there doesn't seem to be a mechanism for preemptive legislation...........you have to wait for some defence lawyer to cry "foul" before you get a ruling?
On a somewhat related note, here is an article on "legal cell-phone surveillance"
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20002986-245.html
I was somewhat surprised that it is apparently legal.
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April 25th, 2010, 03:29 AM
#13
Originally Posted by nihil
That sounds like a perfectly reasonable application of existing law to new technology, something that the law (government & judiciary) is not usually noted for.
Yeah. It's especially bad around me. There is an Assistant US Attorney who often quips; "Massachusetts: 351 cities and towns surrounded by reality."
Above ground, vertical, and exchanging gasses.
Now you see me | Now you don't
"Relax, Bender; It was just a dream. There's no such thing as two." ~ Fry
sometimes my computer goes down on me
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April 25th, 2010, 10:10 AM
#14
"Massachusetts: 351 cities and towns surrounded by reality."
Well, what else do you expect of people who eat beans and molasses at a (Boston) tea party?
I have an idea for a bumper sticker for you:
The government makes the law
The courts apply the law
The police enforce the law
The citizens obey the law
I think that is what we call "democracy"?
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April 28th, 2010, 04:54 PM
#15
Well the difference here is that none of it is written in stone. We either forget laws exist or simply turn them on and off like a lightswitch deppending on whether these insane neo-conservatives are in charge or not.
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