Nowadays, more and more people are making use of GPS tracking systems, which can pinpoint the location of a person, accurate to a few yards. The cause of worry of many privacy advocates is that police is using this method to track suspects. Should the government be allowed to track your every move?
Surprisingly, those most immediately affected are those who arouse the least sympathy in the general public. William Bradley Jackson was convicted of murdering his daughter after the police secretly attached a GPS device to his truck and tracked him when he went to dig up her original, shallow grave and took her body someplace where he could conceal her more thoroughly. Without that, they might never have been able to convict him – but they didn’t have any sort of warrant or judicial oversight for their actions. Before gathering this particular piece of evidence, he was a suspect, not a convict.
So, this brings us to the essential question: Should GPS Tracking be allowed to track the movements of citizens? This technology can be potentially abused to accomplish many dangerous things and cases of police abusing technology is not new. So, a law regarding GPS Tracking should be immediately framed and enforced.