NEW YORK — A federal appeals court ruled Friday that New York City can track taxi drivers by using their cabs’ GPS systems. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruling came in the case of cabbie Hassan El-Nahal, who filed ...

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A California woman filed a lawsuit claiming she was fired illegally after she objected to her employer forcing her to install a GPS tracking application on her phone that monitored her movements 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. ...

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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit GPS Search — Good-Faith Exception United States v. Aguiar 11-5262-cr(L) Judges Jacobs, Pooler and Hall Background: The defendants challenged their convictions on multiple charges related to their participation in a conspiracy to ...

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New York State Court of Appeals GPS Warrant —  Reasonable Search Cunningham v. New York State Department of Labor No. 123 Judge Smith Background: The defendant placed a GPS device on the plaintiff’s car after suspecting him of falsifying time ...

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BUFFALO — A lawmaker has drafted a bill that would make it illegal for a stalker to use a GPS to track a victim. Sen. Timothy Kennedy of Buffalo was outline the details of his proposal Tuesday. He was to ...

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LAKEVIEW — New York Sen. Charles Schumer is calling on the federal government to investigate the rising number of overpass collisions involving trucks that are led onto roads where they don’t belong by GPS devices. Schumer says he will ask ...

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WASHINGTON — The largest solar flare in five years is racing toward Earth, threatening to unleash a torrent of charged particles that could disrupt power grids, GPS and airplane flights. The sun erupted Tuesday evening, and the effects should start ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that police must get a search warrant before using GPS technology to track criminal suspects.

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In a case that had the justices questioning just how far the expectation of privacy extends in a world of ever-evolving technologies, the U.S. Supreme Court considered Tuesday whether the police’s use of a warrantless GPS tracking device on a ...

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court will weigh in on an important privacy issue for the digital age, whether the police need a warrant before using a global positioning system device to track a suspect's movements.

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Police didn't need a warrant to install a "real-time" tracking device on a drug suspect's vehicle, the 7th Circuit has ruled in affirming the denial of a motion to suppress. Phoenix police identified the defendant as a suspect in a drug trafficking operation.

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ALBANY — Sen. Charles Schumer of New York says a bill with strong support in Congress would allow airports to switch from decades-old radar air traffic control to GPS and dramatically reduce flight delays. The Democrat says his bill headed for votes ...

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