The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals today revealed that now it is legal for the police to put a GPS tracking device on your car, sitting in your driveway, or on your property. But if you don’t want to get yourself tracked- then read what follows.
The Supreme Court had already said earlier that police can look through things that anyone in the public could come across, which meant, your driveway is freely reachable to the public, hence, the cops can look through it. And so now a rule follows which allows cops to trace you even without a warrant.
You can check the links at the end of this article for cellphone and bug device detectors. But these aren’t 100% fool proof, so if you’re really suspicious and want to hide your location, you’ll want to just go ahead and stop the trackers anyway.
One such type is a GPS jammer, which is illegal to buy and use in the US.
Gizmodo: These types of GPS jammers plug into the cigarette lighter in your car, and will “prohibit GPS signal” up to 10 meters. Ten meters isn’t too far, but it isn’t super close either, so cars next to you might get some GPS interference as you drive down the road.
This model is $33. There are handheld and higher-powered versions available for slightly more, like $50.
Here is the website link for cellphone and bug device detectors
[via gizmodo]
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