On the recordDecember 9, 2013
One of the big questions that stands before the Nation is: Are we going to give up all of our liberties in the name of security? And I think not. Technology is great. It is supposed to make our lives better and simpler, more efficient, more effective. It is fun, it is innovative, and it is leading the world. But at the same time, we have got to make sure that these technologies are not overused, not only by our Federal Government officials in law enforcement, but also by others who would do us harm, who have surreptitiously maybe converted that technology to do something a little bit more pervasive and a little more perverse. It is for that reason that Senator Wyden, my colleague in the United States Senate, and I have introduced what is called H.R. 1312, the geolocation, or GPS Act, as we refer to it, to put some limits and curtail those that want to follow us without our own knowledge. We believe that you should have to have a probable cause warrant in order to track somebody's geolocation. I want that for my own kids. I want that for me. I want to make sure that that technology is safe and secure. So I encourage my colleagues, Mr. Speaker, to look at H.R. 1312, the GPS Act, to deal with these new inventions and technology in a reasonable way. ____________________
