A Virginia Appeals Court upholds GPS tracking without a warrant.  Judge Randolph A Beales wrote “police used the GPS device to crack this case by tracking the appellant on the public roadways — which they could, of course, do in person any day of the week at any hour without obtaining a warrant.”  The GPS, he wrote in the opinion, “did not provide a substitute for police behavior that would have otherwise violated a recognized right to privacy.”

Judge Beales, please consider, the police might have been able to track a person for a limited time, but the police could not track everyone, everywhere for an entire year.  With an opinion like this, the police could track every single person in the United States (or world) continuously, forever at limited cost.

This is abuse of power plain and simple.