The Court has held that attaching a GPS device to a motor vehicle and using that device to monitor the vehicle's movements constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment.

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In the case of United States v. Jones (2012), the Supreme Court held that attaching a GPS device to a motor vehicle and using it to monitor the vehicle's movements constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment. The court reasoned that the government's physical intrusion onto the vehicle for the purpose of obtaining information constituted a search, regardless of whether the government obtained information that it could have obtained by using other means of surveillance.

The Court Has Held That Attaching a GPS Device to a Motor