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More on the FBI's "lost" GPS tracker

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

FBI's GPS Tracking Raises Privacy Concerns?, by Mina Kim: When Yasir Afifi took his car in for an oil change, his mechanic found an unusual wire hanging from below. It was part of a black rectangular device attached to his car by a magnet. After posting photos of it on an online forum, where posters identified it as a GPS tracking device, Afifi, a Santa Clara, Calif., college student and computer salesman, got a visit from FBI agents demanding their equipment back. The FBI confirms the device belongs to the agency and that agents visited Afifi to get it back. But Special Agent Joseph Schadler won't say why it was there.

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on October 27, 2010 (boomark / email).