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Delaware Police Use Of Tracking Software Court Case
May Help Define Limits For GPS Tracking
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June 4th 2011
WILMINGTON, Del. — A criminal case making its way to
the Delaware Supreme Court could help define personal privacy and set limits on
how far police can go when using electronic surveillance in Delaware and perhaps
across the United States.
The American Civil Liberties Union this week filed a
brief in Delaware v. Michael D. Holden, urging the state justices to uphold a
lower court ruling that essentially bars police from using Global Positioning
Systems (GPS) to track people without a court-approved warrant.
Holden, 28 of Newark, was suspected of being a drug
dealer and was electronically tracked for more than 20 days by police without a
warrant, ending with his arrest after police discovered 10 pounds of marijuana
in his vehicle after he visited a suspected drug distribution house. The judge
in the case tossed out the drug evidence, ruling that the lengthy warrantless
tracking of Holden amounted to an illegal search.
In its brief, the ACLU notes the U.S. Supreme Court has
not yet ruled on this issue and legal experts agreed the state case could be
part of a growing national debate over the reach of technology versus the
boundaries of privacy.
The case will likely turn on the concept of the
"reasonable expectation of privacy," said defense attorney and former
prosecutor Peter N. Letang.
With GPS devices in nearly all cellphones and in many
cars and with the popularity of online applications with which users broadcast
their locations to others in real-time, Letang and others said the definition of
what is private and what is public may have shifted.
"It is tough to carve out an expectation of
privacy when everyone else knows where you are," Letang said.
Widener University associate professor Wesley Oliver
said companies like Apple and Google are using GPS information collected from
phones and applications to make a profit. "They are selling information
about your movement to advertisers," he said. The advertisers in turn may
use it to send information to you about sales or cheap gas in your area.
"And if Apple can use my movement to sell me gas,
why can't the government (use similar information) to break up drug rings or
find terrorists?" Oliver asked. "This stuff cuts both
directions."
Legal experts and courts that have ruled on the issue
are divided.
"The difference is it is the state in one
case," said defense attorney Joseph A. Gabay, "and it is Google (or
some other corporation) in the others. You can sue Google for invasion of
privacy but there is no constitutional remedy."
Oliver said that without court-imposed restraints,
detailed GPS information could be used to track a candidate for political office
and conduct "opposition research" by seeking things like visits to
strip clubs, clinics or a mistress' home and be well within the law.
"That is what makes this a hard question,"
Oliver said.
In the Holden case, Superior Court Judge Jan R. Jurden
sided with Holden attorney John Deckers in concluding that a drug unit's use of
a tracking device attached to Holden's vehicle amounted to an unreasonable
search and invaded Holden's privacy.
Police used the GPS device to follow Holden's movements
in a white 1998 Lexus from Feb. 5 to Feb. 24, 2010, and then moved in when the
device showed he was headed to a house suspected of being a drug distribution
point in Carneys Point, N.J..
After witnessing an exchange of duffel bags, police
again relied on information from the GPS device to determine Holden was crossing
the Delaware Memorial Bridge back into Delaware. Holden was then pulled over and
police found a bag with 10 pounds of marijuana inside the car. Holden was
arrested and charged with trafficking.
Jurden agreed with prosecutors that police had the
ability to follow a suspect — without a warrant — as he or she drives from
place to place in plain view. However, she said the unblinking, around-the-clock
supervision provided by a GPS device is different.
"The advance of technology will continue ad
infinitum," she wrote in December. "An Orwellian state is now
technologically feasible. Without adequate judicial preservation of privacy,
there is nothing to protect our citizens from being tracked 24/7."
Deckers and the ACLU argue in court papers filed with
the Delaware Supreme Court that Jurden got it right.
"This case is especially important because of its
impact on the privacy rights of all Delawareans, including the vast majority who
will never be charged with a crime," wrote ACLU attorney Richard Morse
along with attorney Beth Moskow-Schnoll in their brief.
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20110604/NEWS01/106040341/Delaware-courts-Police-use-tracking-devices-issue
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