GPS Devices Help Prosecutors Win

Be careful before you commit that next crime.  Your GPS unit in you car could be the deciding factor to landing you in jail.  A news article released by the Associated Press tells of how prosecutors are winning convictions based upon vehicle GPS devices.  These GPS devices contain tracking points that can tell others where you have been.  Eric Hanson was convicted of murdering four family members based upon his GPS unit in his TrailBlazer.  Read Article

On the flip side, the Technology Blog of the DallasNews has an article entitled GPS violates the civil rights of murderers, other criminals.  They bring up the point of this evading out privacy.  The question is whose privacy is this taking away?  The criminal or the average citizen?  I do agree with Andrew Smith here in the fact that GPS data should be available to police when needed.  But at the same time I do not think that the government should be “following” us like Big Brother (However, I am sure they already are.)