FBI Caught Spying on Student, Demands GPS Tracker Back

20 year old Santa Clara college student and American citizen Yasir Afifi found an FBI tracking device under his car. He showed the device to his roommates who posted a picture of the device online asking if it meant "the FBI is after us"?

Two days later, Afifi - who is half-Egyptian - got a knock in his door by 6 FBI agents asking for their device back. They spoke to Afifi for a few minutes, making it clear they had been following him for a while. "We have all the information we needed," they told him as they left. "You don't need to call your lawyer. Don't worry, you're boring. "

This kind of tracking is more common than you'd think, in fact, it's perfectly legal thanks to a recent ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals saying it's legal for law enforcement to secretly place a tracking device on a suspect's car without getting a warrant, even if the car is parked in a private driveway.
Afifi was contacted by the ACLU who had been looking for the perfect case to use as a challenge to the the tracking ruling.

"This is the kind of thing we like to throw lawyers at," Afifi said the ACLU's Brian Alseth told him.

"It seems very frightening that the FBI have placed a surveillance-tracking device on the car of a 20-year-old American citizen who has done nothing more than being half-Egyptian," Alseth told Wired.com

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[thecalistallion]

Post script-

An esn is attached to all Cellular phones.

Not GPS devices.

And if it's got 11 digits, it's Iden/Nextel.

But then the FED's already bought Nextel.

So whatcha got is a FUCKING PHONE...

CDMA... TDMA... IDEN... GSM...same shit.

Make's me wonder if they sync'ed a bluetooth

earpiece to it and evesdropped on the intercarriage.

[thecalistallion]

That bullshit PCB board isn't intrinsically safe. So the FED's and your local law

enforcement are gambling with the lives of U.S. Citizens. You can't expect for

your lie's to go unchecked. Not as long as they're people who can read a

PCB board and understand electronics. Dumb-fucks. But let me catch you...

AND I'MA MAKE YOUR DEPT. FAMOUS in a 576 pg. book.

[deetjay1]

Think again! As long as the "Patriot Act" is the law of the land...The term "special" police powers...will mean damn anything they want it to mean...

[Danedhxk]

Poice can no longer gps track on cars, police soom to not be able towarrantlessly tap phones

[MrAngelsBaby]

ok i think this is Fucked up im friends with his two lil bro's and the FBI had no right to track yasir. Yasir has done nothing wrong. He is a good American citizen.

[Wrongway1965]

@ItzDanORGTFO ... LOL Brilliant!!! ... also with a note inside that reads, "S U C K E R Z ! ! !"..

[ItzDanORGTFO]

he should have put is in a package and sent it to china starting a wild goose chase haha!

[artspooner]

@artspooner

Sorry for the extra words in there, but I'm tired and I'm sure you know what I mean!

[artspooner]

I think if the feds were tracking him because he is half Egyptian then I think that is quite disgusting.

But if there was intelligence to suggest that a person by the name of the same name was suspicious then they have to investigate. If this is the case, and they had indeed been tracking him for 2 months, then you would think they would realise this is not the man they are looking for and move on.

[chuckmartin00]

did he give it back i would tell them kiss my go to hell !!!!!!

[thecalistallion]

wink*-Wink*!