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The article does not make any suggestions as to what to do if a tracker _is_ found on a car.

• michaelcampbell 15y ago
  I've wondered about that too. I am genuinely curious if there are laws that concern removal of federal/state/local "equipment" from your car, or if "they" would simply charge you with theft (of official property) or "tampering with ..." or somesuch thing if you were to find one, and reattach it to someone else's car, or throw it out or something. Especially so if you had not previously given any authorization to PUT such a device on your car. I assume most rental agreements have some clause in them if the rental agency has a tracker on their fleet, or if you're under some sort of house arrest and that's part of the deal. But covert surveillance? Can you be charged with screwing up the authorities in that way?
  • oniTony 15y ago
    At the very least, they will threaten to charge you with... whatever. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110303/ap_on_re_us/us_gps_tracking_warrants http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110303/ap_on_re_us/us_gps_track... > the agents who showed up to collect the device were "hostile," threatening to charge Afifi if he didn't immediately cooperate and refusing his request to have a lawyer present.
    • michaelcampbell 15y ago
      Yes, I was thinking of this case specifically when I wrote. If memory serves, that young man found the thing and asked on ... twitter? Facebook? some web site "Is this a tracker?" then the feds got all snippity about getting the device back. I was thinking more of what happens if a person silently dislodges it... into a lake. Or the neighbor's truck who happens to be travelling cross-country for the next 3 months and says nothing to anyone about it. I wonder what the actual (as opposed to legal) ramifications would be.