By James Vicini
WASHINGTON | Mon Jan 23, 2012

(Reuters) - The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that police cannot put a GPS device on a suspect's car to track
his movements without a warrant, a test case that upholds basic privacy rights in the face of new surveillance technology.

The high court ruling was a defeat for the Obama administration, which had argued that a warrant was not required to use
global positioning system devices to monitor a vehicle on public streets.


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