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Oil change reignites debate over GPS trackers


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AP – In this undated photo provided by Yasir Afifi, shows a GPS monitoring device he found on his car in Santa …
By PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press Writer – Sat Oct 16, 2:30 pm ET
SAN FRANCISCO – Yasir Afifi, a 20-year-old computer salesman and community college student, took his car in for an oil change earlier this month and his mechanic spotted an odd wire hanging from the undercarriage.
The wire was attached to a strange magnetic device that puzzled Afifi and the mechanic. They freed it from the car and posted images of it online, asking for help in identifying it.
Two days later, FBI agents arrived at Afifi's Santa Clara apartment and demanded the return of their property — a global positioning system tracking device now at the center of a raging legal debate over privacy rights.
One federal judge wrote that the widespread use of the device was straight out of George Orwell's novel, "1984".
"By holding that this kind of surveillance doesn't impair an individual's reasonable expectation of privacy, the panel hands the government the power to track the movements of every one of us, every day of our lives," wrote Alex Kozinski, the chief judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a blistering dissent in which a three-judge panel from his court ruled that search warrants weren't necessary for GPS tracking.
But other federal and state courts have come to the opposite conclusion.
Law enforcement advocates for the devices say GPS can eliminate time-consuming stakeouts and old-fashioned "tails" with unmarked police cars. The technology had a starring role in the HBO cops-and-robbers series "The Wire" and police use it to track every type of suspect — from terrorist to thieves stealing copper from air conditioners.
That investigators don't need a warrant to use GPS tracking devices in California troubles privacy advocates, technophiles, criminal defense attorneys and others.
The federal appeals court based in Washington D.C. said in August that investigators must obtain a warrant for GPS in tossing out the conviction and life sentence of Antoine Jones, a nightclub owner convicted of operating a cocaine distribution ring. That court concluded that the accumulation of four-weeks worth of data collected from a GPS on Jones' Jeep amounted to a government "search" that required a search warrant.
Judge Douglas Ginsburg said watching Jones' Jeep for an entire month rather than trailing him on one trip made all the difference between surveilling a suspect on public property and a search needing court approval.
"First, unlike one's movements during a single journey, the whole of one's movements over the course of a month is not actually exposed to the public because the likelihood anyone will observe all those movements is effectively nil," Ginsburg wrote. The state high courts of New York, Washington and Oregon have ruled similarly.


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The Obama administration last month asked the D.C. federal appeals court to change its ruling, calling the decision "vague and unworkable" and arguing that investigators will lose access to a tool they now use "with great frequency."
After the D.C. appeals court decision, the 9th Circuit refused to revisit its opposite ruling.
The panel had concluded that agents could have gathered the same information by following Juan Pineda-Moreno, who was convicted of marijuana distribution after a GPS device alerted agents he was leaving a suspected "grow site."
"The only information the agents obtained from the tracking devices was a log of the locations where Pineda-Moreno's car traveled, information the agents could have obtained by following the car," Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain wrote for the three-judge panel.
Two other federal appeals court have ruled similarly.
In his dissent, Chief Judge Kozinski noted that GPS technology is far different from tailing a suspect on a public road, which requires the active participation of investigators.
"The devices create a permanent electronic record that can be compared, contrasted and coordinated to deduce all manner of private information about individuals," Kozinksi wrote.
Legal scholars predict the U.S. Supreme Court will ultimately resolve the issue since so many courts disagree.
George Washington University law professor Orin Kerr said the issue boils down to public vs. private. As long as the GPS devices are attached to vehicles on public roads, Kerr believes the U.S. Supreme Court will decide no warrant is needed. To decide otherwise, he said, would ignore a long line of previous 4th Amendment decisions allowing for warrantless searches as long as they're conducted on public property.
"The historic line is that public surveillance is not covered by the 4th Amendment," Kerr said.
All of which makes Afifi's lawyer pessimistic that he has much of a chance to file a successful lawsuit challenging the FBI's actions. Afifi is represented by Zahra Billoo of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the country's largest Islamic civil rights group.
Afifi declined comment after spending last week fielding myriad media inquiries after wired.com posted the story of his routine oil change and it went viral on the Internet.
Still, Billoo hopes the discovered GPS tracking device will help publicize in dramatic fashion the issue of racial profiling the lawyer says Arab-Americans routinely encounter.
She said Afifi was targeted because of his extensive ties to the Middle East, which include supporting two brothers who live in Egypt and making frequent overseas trips. His father was a well-known Islamic-American community leader who died last year in Egypt.
"Yasir hasn't done anything to warrant that kind of surveillance," Billoo said. "This was a blatant example of profiling."


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lol. Yo, the other dude biyytch is mad fugly, kid!

Inked, u gone come get ur punishment or what?

DaRapture:
How in the hell are you calling these chicks Igbo, when it's blatantly obvious that they aren't? 

They could be if they mixed with some other race, but no way in hell two Ibos can make such a beautiful creature!

Look at Ojukwu; look at the Osisi wuteva dude thats kidnapping everything East of the Niger. They both share a common trait: Beast-Like looks!

Imagine those two breeding even Halle Berry or Rebecca Romijn; what miracle are u expecting?

Exactly! Ibo couples cant pull that off, never!

Pharoh:
The chicken will soon come home to roast very soon and goodluck will be vindicated at the end of the day.

Roast or[b] Roost[/b]?

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=532981.msg6950263#msg6950263 date=1287211932]Wow, Fayemi is cute sha [/quote]Biyythc u blind?

[quote author=john_blaze link=topic=532972.msg6956316#msg6956316 date=1287293550]igbo kwenu[/quote]Indeed! Just remember to claim this as "purely Ibo" when the numerous faults that are bound to occur start making the news!

Ifygurl:
Hon. Stop taking things personally. people are not calling her a trash because she's half jamaican. People are calling her a trash because she's a trash. The way she dress is not acceptable in Nigerian standard. Stop taking it so personally. Tracy Obonna is fully nigerian yet we call her trash as well.

This illiterate, horrible-english speaking thing is still alive?

jaygetta:
Ok, Inked, I've been watching all along while everyone"s been trying to bag my Inked. I'm tired of being a gentleman; now its war! Inked,

Lol. No war negro! We all know Inked be going to bed fantasizing about the kid. Aint that right, inked? LMAO!

EzeUche0:
People ridiculed me when I said that Western Nations will not consider MEND a terrorist organization.
It is OUR OIL!

Is this before or after you kill the Ijaws, chase them from their lands, and "force" a route to the Atlantic on behalf of the Ibos?

P.S: I guarantee you the U.S and Canada will classify them as terrorist if they are proven to have set off those bombs!

tpiah:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism


if you fit any of these definitions, then you're a terrorist.

doesnt matter what you say you're fighting for.

I should propose to Tpiah!

[quote author=Inked_Nerd link=topic=510057.msg6945955#msg6945955 date=1287149533]


Calm down and stop havin' a b***h fit. It was a simple mistake. Smh. East New York and Bed-Stuy, same difference .[/quote]Biyyytch fit? I will not condone none of my gals talking to me in that manner. . . . . .Lady, u on time out!

Get in the room and take off ur clothes!

[quote author=Inked_Nerd link=topic=510057.msg6941923#msg6941923 date=1287092420]He's from Brooklyn. Bed-Stuy to be exact [I think].[/quote]You know, when trying to spread rumors, its always best to have some of the facts right,at least!

Anyways, JaygETTA, I'm from East New York!

My motto on life:

"She dont look good, I aint gone look"

.

[quote author=Inked_Nerd link=topic=510057.msg6937727#msg6937727 date=1287046931]No trip o [/quote]. . . . . . Soooooo, I'm a "Douche-bag"? lol

Inked a Drag queen? So, I've been Cyber-Stalking a Shim that probably got a schlong bigger Your's Truly's?!

Somehow, why dont I believe this story?! lol

Creamish:
yeah . . .we're fake . . .  . so go f*^K d NL guyz . .they r sooooooooooo real.


stay away from ma Jay bee & Chamotex tho' . . .cos dey'll roast your sorry azz! itiboribo!

Hahhahahahahha.lol. Hhahahahahahahaha

[quote author=Inked_Nerd link=topic=510057.msg6937151#msg6937151 date=1287041015]
Lmaaaaaoooooo, trusting you isn't an answer. Tell me why.[/quote]Lol. What other answer are u expecting?lol

Soon, if u domt send this pic soon, my email is gonna biyyytch slap me for keeoing her waiting all this while. . . . . . . lol

[quote author=Inked_Nerd link=topic=510057.msg6937022#msg6937022 date=1287039027]
Lmao, why? [/quote]Just TRUST me!

Wow. U just got me sitting in front of my email. lol

U do know how to keep a nigga waiting.

[quote author=Inked_Nerd link=topic=510057.msg6936978#msg6936978 date=1287038482]
Lmao, and what if I don't need or want any of those things? [/quote]Trust me, u need them.lol

[quote author=Inked_Nerd link=topic=510057.msg6936954#msg6936954 date=1287037982]
Hmmm you do realize that if I send you a pic that you and I will never meet each other? And what will I get in return if I send you a pic?

Lol lol lol
[/quote]U know what, that sucks. Somehow, I doubt thatd be true.

You seem cool, so even if we're friends on-line (for now/till ure comfortable  ) then thats cool.


Oh waht u get in return?

1. My friendship

2. Cyber-Kisses, and;

3. A life-time subscription to special "Bk-Ass Kissing 9.0" (or any improved version). This product is sure to go all ova NaiRa Land (and beyond, if need be) promoting Inked_Nerd with Praises, and hails!

1. I'm a guy

2. I'm BkBabe

3. I really, really (and God knows), really want to hit it just based off of the name!

Lol.

No, just kidding. I'm cool, I think ure nice. . . . and em, em. . . . I'm bkBabe! lol

[quote author=Inked_Nerd link=topic=510057.msg6936792#msg6936792 date=1287035877]Hmmmm ::[/b]thinking[b]::
[/font][/size][/quote]I'm still waiting. . . . . . .

[quote author=Inked_Nerd link=topic=510057.msg6936734#msg6936734 date=1287034535]
Who's frontin'?! That's the straight up truth. And of course you won't tell since it's never gonna happen . [/quote]hey, I wanna see what u look like?

Be kind enough to this nice dude and send a pic to my email

Promise not to share! serious.

[quote author=Inked_Nerd link=topic=510057.msg6936581#msg6936581 date=1287029571]Good, stay pissed off!! I was serious when I said you weren't gonna hit it .[/font][/size][/quote]Nah, u know u wasnt serious to stop fronting! lol.

U know if I do I aint gone tell. . . . .