Explain the legality of GPS monitoring by the government and the Fourth Amendment implications of such action.

What will be an ideal response?


In Jones, a unanimous Supreme Court concluded that the government's actions qualified as a "search" under the Fourth Amendment. The majority conceded that, beginning with Katz, later decisions of the Court "deviated from th[e] exclusively property-based approach," focusing instead on reasonable expectations of privacy; however, these decisions, "did not repudiate" the historical understanding of the Fourth Amendment-that it "embod[ies] a particular concern for government trespass upon the areas (‘persons, houses, papers, and effects') it enumerates."

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