me through my blackberry and iphone. the government says this will prevent accidents and help determine who is at fault in an accident. they have plenty of examples. the crash in florida. the gps tracker device showed it was going too fast and it was used to convict the driver of manslaughter. gm started these in the 90s and they did it for the quality. they wanted to check out the quality of their vehicles. there are no rules and boundaries. technology has evolved to where now these recorders, which are the size of two decks of cards, are in 96% of every automobile that s out on the market right now. so what? they ll know. that gets shared with
iphone and the government says this will prevent accidents or this will help determine who was at fault in the accident. this is a good thing. they have plenty of examples. the crash in florida. the gps tracker device showed it was going 114 miles per hour seconds before it killed two people. and that was used to convict the driver of manslaughter. it s being used in a whole bunch of ways against you, me, and the rest of the world in civil lawsuits. gm started these in the 90s. and they did it out of quality. we want to check out the quality of our vehicles and it started from there. but there are no rules. there are no boundaries and technology evolved to where now these recorders which are about the size of two decks of cards are in about 96% of them. they ll put it on tv. that s a primetime to go hit his house and get that ice
won t say why. the student s attorney calls it a frightening invasion of privacy but agents say there s no exception of privacy when a car is driven on a public street where it can be easily followed. i believe that this gps tracker device is no more intrusive than a physical surveillance on foot or in a vehicle. joining me now, nationally syndicated radio talk show host michael smerconish. you re also an attorney. what s your take on this? my take on this is it s more invasive than just following a car as police have a right to do without a warrant. i think when you actually place a gps tracking device on somebody s car, it takes it more into the realm of a search, and to protect individuals against unreasonable search and seizure in this country, law enforcement must first obtain a warrant, and i think that the handling in this case, the holding by the supreme court ultimately will be you need a warrant in order to do this. well, this will be something we ve been planning to