The Denver Post picked up the New York Times article:

“Only yesterday it was the exotic stuff of spy shows: Flip on a computer, and track the enemy’s speeding car.

But today, anyone with $300 can compete with Jack Bauer. Online, and soon in big-box stores, you can buy a device no bigger than a cigarette pack, attach it to a car without the driver’s knowledge, and watch the vehicle’s travels — and stops — at home on your laptop.

Tens of thousands of Americans are already doing just that, with little oversight, for purposes as seemingly benign as tracking an elderly parent with dementia or a risky teenage driver, or as legally and ethically charged as spying on a spouse or an employee — or for outright criminal stalking.

Last Monday, [January 23, 2012], in a decision seen as a first step toward setting boundaries for law enforcement, the Supreme Court held that under the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution, placing a Global Positioning System tracker on a vehicle is a search. Police departments across the country say they will be more likely to seek judicial approval before using the devices, if they were not already doing so.

Still, sales of GPS trackers to employers and individuals, for a multitude of largely unregulated uses, are growing fast, raising questions about privacy and a legal system that has not kept pace with technology.

This easy tool for recording a person’s every move is a powerful one that, when misused, amounts to ‘electronic stalking’.

“That, to the victim, is just as terrifying as seeing your face in the window at night before they go to bed,” said John J. Nazarian, who heads an investigation agency based in Los Angeles.”

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