Caught Spying on Student, FBI Demands GPS Tracker Back
Found on Wired on Thursday, 07 October 2010
A California student got a visit from the FBI this week after he found a secret GPS tracking device on his car, and a friend posted photos of it online.
A reader quickly identified it as an Orion Guardian ST820 tracking device made by an electronics company called Cobham, which sells the device only to law enforcement.
"We have all the information we needed," they told him. "You don't need to call your lawyer. Don't worry, you're boring."
Boring enough to stick an expensive tracker under his car. Hello big brother. Also, I thought those trackers would be smaller. I'd be cheaper and way less obvious to stick a GPS cellphone onto the car.