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November 01 2011 6:16 AM  As GPS technology becomes a ubiquitous
feature in smartphones and automobiles, the U.S. Supreme Court
will decide if law enforcement needs a warrant to use a device
that tracks a person's public movement for a potentially
unlimited amount of time.  Next week on Nov. 8, the justices
will hear arguments in a case that could test the U.S.
Constitution's Fourth Amendment protection from warrantless
government searches and seizures in a digital age in which a
person's public activities can be traced and compiled.  [The
case] is an opportunity for the court to consider a whole new
range of technology available to the government that allows the
government to compile a very detailed record of where a
particular vehicle has gone over a long period of time, said
Paul Smith, a partner at Jenner & Block.  Smith said that giving
law enforcement the authority to compile such records using GPS
technology without a warrant could be used to tra