AP The Supreme Court will weigh in on an important privacy issue for the digital age, whether the police need a warrant before using a global positioning system device to track a suspects movements The justices said today they will hear the Obama administrations appeal of a court ruling that favored a criminal defendant The federal appeals court in Washington overturned a criminal conviction because the police had no warrant for the GPS device they secretly installed on a mans car
The Justice Department argued that warrantless use of GPS devices does not violate the Fourth Amendments ban on unreasonable searches It also said prompt resolution of the divergent court opinions is critically important to law enforcement Other appeals courts have ruled that search warrants arent necessary for GPS tracking
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