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By Larry O'Dell
RICHMOND
A House of Delegates committee has endorsed legislation to prohibit the unauthorized use of GPS or other electronic tracking devices.
Del. Joe May's bill makes it illegal for anyone to deceptively and without consent use such a device to track a person's location. The Loudoun County Republican introduced the bill at the request of a constituent who became upset when he learned that a private investigator hired by his estranged wife had placed a GPS device underneath his car.
The bill exempts law enforcement officers who obtain a warrant, as required by a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling. It also exempts parents tracking their kids, any legally authorized representative of an incapacitated adult, owners of fleet vehicles and electronic communications providers like OnStar and cell phone companies.
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radar detectors again
I have every right to know where my son is driving my car, and where my buddy takes my truck when he borrows it. I have every right to know where my employee is taking my vehicle and how it is driven.
This is just like the radar detector saga... it solves nothing, just another freedom taken for unjust reasoning in the Great Commonwealth of Va. Big deal, a politician was busted cheating. What's new?
Reread
Please reread the very brief article - it will remain perfectly alright to do the things you list. In fact the will have no effect on those things anyway, because those vehicles are yours and your are perfectly within your right to have GPS on your own vehicles.
1984 was the beginning of...
...the total invasion of privacy by the government, not to mention the collateral damage piled on by the private sector. We need help bad and are thankful for your current efforts.
An important step for privacy
Technology has outrun law and privacy has suffered as a result.
No one, without a warrant, should be able to track other adult citizens without their consent. That includes access to toll information and police databases obtained by side view license plate cameras.
Law has fallen behind the capabilities of technology and we need to address these abuses.
LPR
Dr. Tabor,
As far as I know, police databases of license plate readers are not open to the public, and at least locally are not even well developed within police agencies.
The license plates themselves, when issued by the "government" and displayed in public places are not considered a privacy matter at all - the Virginia Supreme Court (and I believe also the Federal 4th Circuit) has already ruled on that matter - the precise phrase is "no reasonable expectation of privacy." That however, does not mean that the public can access that data.
There are private auction companies running license plate readers, and I suppose private investigators could too - their data would be for whatever use they may have.
Gimpy Knee Any information
Gimpy Knee
Any information gathered by Law Enforcement that is not PII or Active Criminal Investigation is freely avalable to the public......
also IN FACT Portsmouths Treasurer DOES give access to and permit use of SSLR with their Collection/Boot Corp. they use a tan Ford Escape with SSLR onboard and mounted to the hood.
I agree with Dr. Tabor we are REQUIRED to have license plates and so SSLR "checks" your plate with NO PROBABLE CAUSE.......I feel it is an invasion to require me to to provide PII to be issued a plate then scan it without cause.
As a matter of fact search through and youll find LOCAL POLICE OFFICERS have been reprimanded and even charged for improperly using DMV information for improper purposes including SSLR
Incorrect...
Your taxes have to be delinquent and in that database to flag the computer when they scan license plates. If your taxes are current you are in the list and the computer knows nothing.
Sorry.
Meant if you don't owe taxes you are not in that database.
What about the "buy here pay here" dealers.
That will make it more difficult for poor risks to buy a car and those dealers to sell the same car many times.