United States v. Jones, 565 U.S. 400 (2012)
United States v. Jones (2012) was a landmark Fourth Amendment case where the Supreme Court addressed whether attaching a GPS tracker to a suspect’s car without a valid warrant constituted an unconstitutional search. Antoine Jones, a nightclub owner, was suspected of drug trafficking, and law enforcement placed a GPS device on his car without a proper warrant, tracking his movements for 28 days.
The Court unanimously ruled that this action violated the Fourth Amendment. Justice Scalia, writing for the majority, emphasized that physically trespassing on private property (Jones’s car) to install the tracker was a “search.” The Court revived the traditional property-based interpretation of the Fourth Amendment while signaling the importance of privacy in the digital age. This decision reinforced the necessity of obtaining a warrant for such invasive surveillance methods.
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