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Wired.com: The joys of being GPS tracked by the FBI; they want their toys back

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

A mechanic working on a California student with a Middle Eastern name for a GPS device planted on his car and gave it to him. The FBI came calling as a result: On ABAJ.com: Student’s Discovery of GPS Tracking Device Brings Visits by FBI, ACLU, a story via Wired.com: A California student was visited first by the FBI and then by the American Civil Liberties Union after reports surfaced that his mechanic had found a GPS tracking device on his car. After Yasir Afifi discovered the device, a friend posted photos online, prompting “wide speculation about whether the device was real, whether the young Arab-American was being targeted in a terrorism investigation and what the authorities would do,” Wired.com reports on its blog Threat Level...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on October 09, 2010 (boomark / email).