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Released: November 07, 2011
Police GPS device use triggers privacy clash
Source: Greg Stohr, Businessweek
Nov. 7 (Bloomberg)—For a month in 2005, police in Washington tracked Antoine Jones’s every move—or at least those he made in his Jeep Grand Cherokee.
Using a GPS device authorities had secretly attached to the vehicle, investigators in the nation’s capital were able to tie him to a suspected drug stash house. Jones was eventually arrested and convicted in federal court of conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
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