[throwaway35784]

Why don't laws about installing a gps tracker on a car apply to installing a gps tracker on my person?

Facebook is exactly breaking the law at least in many states.

Its so clearly illegal and wrong. I really don't understand why someone doesn't stop them.

Can I form a corporation, employ myself, then act with impunity too?

[MFogleman]

The 4th amendment guarantees protection against unreasonable search and seizure by the government.

Wiretaps can (depending on state) takes hundreds of pages of paperwork, and months of documentation and review, before they get approved. But if you work for a company, and they tell you that they are monitoring phone calls made from company phones, you just have to deal with it.

[throwaway35784]

What does the 4th amendment say about non law enforcement persons installing a GPS tracker on my car.

Can I go and buy a gps tracker and install it on your car? If not, why is Facebook or Google or whoever allowed to install one on my phone?

It had nothing to do with the 4th amendment. I can buy a GPS tracker on amazon right now. You don't have to be a cop to install a tracker.

[SmellyGeekBoy]

> Can I form a corporation, employ myself, then act with impunity too?

Pretty much, although you won't be very popular

[vonmoltke]

Single-member corporations provide little legal protection. Piercing the corporate veil is pretty easy if the corporation can be shown to be operating merely as a proxy for a single person.

[tenebrisalietum]

Facebook is not equivalent to law enforcement (not yet anyway). You don't have to use or have a Facebook account. You also don't have to have the app installed on your phone.

[throwaway35784]

Why is everyone answering the question like I'm talking about the police? Is it legal for any person off the street to install a GPS tracker on someone else's car?