Victory for Fourth Amendment.

The U.S.Supreme Court rules that installing a GPS tracking device on the exterior of a vehicle while the vehicle is parked in a public place is a search. Based on prior caselaw, this case could easily have gone the other way.

United States v. Jones, 586 U.S. _____ (January 23, 2012). Now, if we can just keep Big Brother out of other areas of our lives. (Corrected, see later post above)