Constitutional Law: Illegal Tracking Devices Used In Law Enforcement

Surveillance is not a new thing. In fact, espionage, tracking, and sleuthing were part of society ever since 5000 B.C. But in the rise of the modern era, the idea of surveillance in the public eye serves as a controversial topic of discussion. People everywhere complain about the existence of security cameras, government tracking, and the right to privacy. Such problems, however, are not due to the sudden discovery of surveillance, but the modern abuse of it. Seeing the disastrous effects of over surveillance from George Orwell’s 1984, the public rightfully fears societal deterioration through modern surveillance abuse portrayed in Matthew Hutson’s “Even Bugs Will Be Bugged” and the effects of such in Jennifer Golbeck’s “All Eyes On You”. The abuse of surveillance induces the fear of discovery through the invasion of privacy, and ensures the omnipresence of one’s past that haunt future endeavors, to ultimately obstruct human development and the progress of society overall.

Electronic monitoring is a device that allows Justice Officers and officials to ensure an offender is at a certain location when 65 required to be there. The use of the monitoring device is becoming more popular as a way to control and supervise offenders within the community to ensure citizens are safe. In the mid-1960 a Harvard Psychologist Robert Schwitzgebel developed the first electronic monitoring device. The device was intended to provide an inexpensive alternative for offenders than incarceration or within the justice process. Even though the device was patented in 1969 it didn’t start coming into effect until the 1980’s. It’s used by courts to track the location of offenders that are under surveillance or restricted to certain areas.

However, the same technology that empowers the general public also empowers criminals and terrorists. Is it worth it to compromise the privacy of the general public in order to monitor the behavior of a select few potential criminals? Thus far, the consensus has been 'no'; every publicized effort by law enforcement to introduce general surveillance to the Internet has been met by loud public outcry. [Riley] The public simply will not permit law enforcement to do any form of monitoring that is not accompanied by probable cause and a search warrant.

Do you know who is tracking your movements when your turn on your cell phone, or what is being done with that information? These are questions that I recently had to ask myself after reading two insightful articles. The first was by Ronald Bailey called “Your Cellphone is Spying on You” and the other was by Terry J. Allen entitled “Reach Out and Track Someone”. In Ronald Bailey’s article, he explores the use of cellular phone tracking technology by law enforcement and their recent attempts to expand the surveillance laws to include more use of cell phones to track users’ movements without their knowledge. In addition he gives us some perspective on the idea of a big brother watching over us by examining what a

Issues: The issues are whether these policies protect the community, help lower sex crime and recidivism rates, reduce monetary spending, and assist the offenders with adjusting and developing their life after the conviction. One of the most recent and improved technology devices used to track the offenders is global positioning system (GPS). Operations of GPS tethers raise such questions as the cost of monitoring and administrating, intrusion in privacy of the offenders, and what is the long term effect of being monitored.

Policing is not just keeping the peace in today’s society. Police officers have several responsibilities and also new technology to learn. New technology helps law enforcement preform a better job in communication, crime solving, decreasing crime and making communities a better place to live for citizens and their families. Biometrics and GPS tracking are two useful technologies’ that have made the police able to catch criminals, and solve crimes quicker and more sufficient. Biometrics modalities used by law enforcement is fingerprints, DNA (Blood), and patterns of the voice and faces of victims. Then GPS Tracking

The Right to Privacy Tracking Our Online Trackers by Gary Kovacs is a video about how people from all around the world are exposed to danger through the internet. Whether you're checking your daily email or checking your social media, someone is probably out there watching you. Some marketing companies send you offers based on your personal data while on the internet. Kovacs brought up a great point about how his daughter was being watched by unknown sources while on the internet for only two hours.

Can be carried out by covertly following suspects in unmarked, normal looking vehicles, or through infiltration whereby an undercover officer infiltrates the targeted suspect group and covertly gathers evidence. Surveillance devices can also be used when investigating suspects; these can be anything from tracking devices to phone bugging. Officers may infiltrate a suspect’s home or business and plant listening devices and bugs throughout the area; these will then be monitored in an unmarked vehicle parked close by. These vehicles are often disguised as moving vans or delivery vans. Another way officers may plant listening devices is to pose as electricians, plumbers and gas men, etc. These are all more commonly used by

In the article, You (and Your Cellphone) on Candid Camera by The New York Times Editorial Board, they raise the issue of customers being tracked by cell phone without their knowledge while they are shopping. The Editorial Board believes, as I do, that stores should not track people on their cellular devices without prior consent. They claim that apparently traditional retailers are tracking their customers on their cellular devices and on security cameras with little or no information given regarding these activities. This is being done not for consumers’ safety or the prevention of a crime, as with regular security tracking, but just so that companies can target their consumers with personalized advertisements. I, for one already cannot stand too many advertisement texts and e-mails when I knowingly sign up for them, I am outraged that this is allowed to go on without most people’s knowledge.

This paper is about the technology and the tactics used by law enforcement. Specifically my research question is, “How has the equipment and the tactics in police departments changed in the last 50 years?” The equipment used by police officers has improved drastically since the 1980s, but I would like to go beyond that, how has the equipment used by todays police officers and the tactics they employ with that equipment changed since the 1960s? The three main aspects I would like to this research to focus on is Standard Patrol, K-9 Units, and SWAT Teams. For this paper the word equipment refers to anything that an officer uses on a daily basis, it can be anything from weapons, to vehicles, to even animals.

The law enforcement industry, is just one example, of an organization that has embraced GPS technology because it has made their jobs easier, safer, and more productive. All these elements add up to costs savings, in nearly every area of law enforcement. GPS tracking systems help police officers to, not only know where the good guys are, it helps them to know where the bad guys are. Tracking devices give paramedics, fire response teams, and police officers the ability to rapidly respond to calls in cities, across the nation, and many are discovering that GPS tracking devices have other valuable applications for law enforcement. Using GPS devices in a variety of situations, law enforcement personnel

Electronic passage through the Internet leaves a trail that can be traced. Tracing is a process that follows the Internet activity backwards, from the recipient to the user. As well, a user's Internet activity on web sites can also be tracked on the recipient site i.e., what sites are visited and how often. Sometimes this tracking and tracing ability is used to generate email to the user promoting a product that is related to the sites visited. User information, however, can also be gathered covertly. This leaves us wondering if tracking devices violates the user's privacy.

The tracking system will send signals over (RF) radio frequency and Wife embedded connections. The tracking system will identify prisoners by their tag credentials. That are preloaded in a personal data server that secure behind a fire wall.

Following this series of events, the NSA begins tracking and monitoring Robert. To determine his knowledge about the tape they use: global positioning systems (GPS), they implant a covert listening device in his phone, a tracking device in his shoe, and employ other sophisticated means of surveillance. Additionally, the ease of data collection, the overall volume of data amassed, as well the sheer propensity of the NSA’s pursuit of Robert, alludes to the notion of an almost Orwellian regime. The Orwellian concept of surveillance refers to

While there is little validity in the promise that no illegal immigrant will make it through secured borders undetected, the first order of business is to apply tracking devices that can be utilized on immigrants that have in the past, or currently, entered into