United States v Jones, 132 S. Ct. 945 (2012): A warrant for GPS tracking and monitoring the respondent location in public streets

Justice Scalia provided majority opinion that using of GPS for tracking Jones car which comes under the definition of a personal “effect” clearly constitute as a search since it is defined as the history of government trespassing on private property in order to obtain information. Analysis Using a GPS device on a personal “effect” comes under the definition of a search in the Fourth Amendment, and it complies with the “reasonable expectation of privacy” standard.