[privacy] New Zealand's Big Brother

[Florian Weimer]

* Alex Eckelberry:

> what exactly is the back-story on this one, does anyone know?

<http://juris.bundesgerichtshof.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/document.py?Gericht=bgh&Art=en&sid=1b63255d05abba46fe03acb7d213c477&client=%5B%22%5B%27%5B%27%2C+%27%5B%27%5D%22%2C+%22%5B%27%5B%27%2C+%27%5B%27%5D%22%5D&client=%5B%22%5B%27%5B%27%2C+%27%5B%27%5D%22%2C+%22%5B%27%5B%27%2C+%27%5B%27%5D%22%5D&nr=19243&pos=0&anz=1>

GPS devices are routinely used by law enforcement world-wide to track
suspects (the court decision linked above is related to a 1997 police
operation).