GPS tracking sneakers?!

[sacp81170a]

You guys are missing a whole 'nother set of possibilities. If information is stored in a government database, it's subject to the FOIA. How long will it be before some sharp lawyer involved in civil litigation against you will think to mine the federal databases via the FOIA? As an example, say your chipped puppy nips a trespasser on your property in the behind and he or she sues? Voila, the GPS records show that you regularly allow your puppy to roam outdoors while "doing his business" and this pattern of negligence "led to my clients' injury, for which you are clearly liable." You can think up additional scenarios on your own, including your insurance company refusing to pay for an accident because of your "clear pattern of driving too fast and running stop signs." No, the government isn't the only entity that can abuse this type of information. If there's money to be made or lost, it comes much closer to being a reality than I can be comfortable with.

 

[Thin Black Line]

If information is stored in a government database, it's subject to the FOIA. How long will it be before some sharp lawyer involved in civil litigation against you will think to mine the federal databases via the FOIA?

This kind of database would outweight the intrusion for a simple individual
civil suit. Unless the actual goal of such a lawsuit would be to force further
restrictions on gun-owners in general. Sadly, a FOIA request doesn't really
mean anything when the words "national security" are blathered by a mid-level
apparatchnik.

 

[sacp81170a]

How is it that the information wouldn't be subject to FOIA? If it's not part of an ongoing criminal or intelligence investigation, a FOIA request could be worded to ask for specifically the information wanted and not compromise "national security." Moreover, the information would exist in government databases for a LONG time.

 

[ceetee]

As things currently stand, it's illegal for our government to build and maintain any kind of database for the purpose of storing information for future use. It's okay, though. There are plenty of private companies willing to do the building and storing. They have no compunction about selling you to your own government...

 

[FieroCDSP]

And what, exactly, are you doing that you're so afraid of someone finding you? I couldn't care less if someone was tracking me. That would be a really boring job.

Most new cell phones already have a built in GPS, by the way...better go put on a foil hat.

What am I doing that's Illegal? Nothing right now, though certain parties are sure to make living and free thought a capital crime eventually. I've disabled the GPS on my phone, as it kills the batteries quicker. not to mention I don't want people tracking me when I sneak out with my friends to their property to get in some target practice.

 

[Lonestar]

 

[Thin Black Line]

How is it that the information wouldn't be subject to FOIA? If it's not part of an ongoing criminal or intelligence investigation, a FOIA request could be worded to ask for specifically the information wanted and not compromise "national security."

It would be hard to tell what had really been declassified, re-classified, then
declassified again if you didn't have copies or a good memory from what had
been declassified the first time around. In any case, if you don't know what
to look for in the first place, how are you going to find it? The whole HREX
controversy comes to mind on that one.

Remember when FBI/NICS was keeping a record of gun purchases during the
Clinton years? Those stopped just because they (the fedgov) told us it stopped?

 

[RealGun]

This is really dumb. You wear the sneakers only if you want to.