Monday, March 30, 2015

Supreme Court questions involuntary human GPS monitoring

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/supreme-court-questions-involuntary-human-gps-monitoring/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29

The Supreme Court ordered North Carolina's legal system to re-examine whether it is constitutional to require a convicted sex offender to wear an electronic GPS anklet for the rest of his life. For the moment, Monday's ruling renders uncertain the legal justification for North Carolina's electronic monitoring program—which has more than 600 offenders wearing ankle bracelets—and the future of some 40 other states that also require GPS surveillance on tens of thousands of others.

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