Are you amazed by how efficiently GPS tracking systems on your smartphone or in your car can find locations? Get ready to become even more stunned. The latest technology allows GPS devices to identify locations within mere centimeters. What’s behind this improved efficiency?

Why would a GPS patent holder sue fast food restaurants like Burger King and Wendy’s? Actually, let’s hold off on that question. In what sense can a company hold a patent on GPS technology?

SF Leads the Way with Potential Installation of Car Tracking for All City Vehicles. If you are someone who wants more government accountability, you will like this story about San Francisco’s plan to add GPS tracking devices to all 7,841 of the city’s vehicles.

While innovations in technology arrive with lightning speed, the wheels of justice have a difficult time keeping pace. GPS tracking is the issue that’s currently presenting some thorny situations for our court system. The Supreme Court recently weighed in on the government’s use of GPS devices, declaring it a form of search-and-seizure that is covered by the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution.

With GPS technology continuing to strengthen its foothold in our personal and professional lives, it’s getting more difficult to remember a time without it. But an anti-war protest in the early 90s nearly derailed the entire system before it even got started. The Harriet Tubman-Sarah Connor Brigade In 1992 two activists named Keith Kjoller and Peter Lumsdaine illegally […]