In one of the most closely watched cases of the current term, the U.S. Supreme Court waded cautiously into the murky waters surrounding the application of the Constitution’s prohibition on unreasonable searches to 21st century technology, for which existing Fourth Amendment case law would seem a poor fit.
In United States v. Jones, 132 S.Ct. 945 (2012), the Court held that the installation of a global positioning system (GPS) tracking device on a suspect’s vehicle, and the use of that device to monitor the suspect’s movements, was a search for Fourth Amendment purposes. However, the significance of the decision is unclear for a number of reasons.
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