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A weirdly relevant case from Switzerland [0]. The Swiss court ruled that it's totally legal to put GPS trackers on other peoples cars to track them. The court
by freeflight 9y ago
A weirdly relevant case from Switzerland [0].
The Swiss court ruled that it's totally legal to put GPS trackers on other peoples cars to track them.
The court argued that a car is so public and visible that the GPS tracker is only collecting "public knowledge" anyway.
[0] https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/panorama/vermischtes/wenn-am-auto-ein-gpstracker-klebt-die-polizei-aber-nichts-tut/story/12707402 https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/panorama/vermischtes/wenn-am-au...
- ramblenode 9y agoIn the US, the SCOTUS has ruled differently: that attaching a GPS tracking device to a car constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment and requires a warrant. See US v. Jones (2012) and Grady v. North Carolina (2015).