Reality TV super-star Bethenny Frankel and her husband, Jason Hoppy, were lost at sea in September 2011 after a sailing trip went incredibly wrong.
Many people suggested that the event was staged, that the boat’s GPS system never went out – until this week when the ordeal aired on Mrs. Frankel’s reality TV show “Bethenny Ever After.”
This week viewers were able to see that the event really did happen, and it was quite a crazy experience for all involved.
Bethenny and Jason, along with her therapist, a Bravo film crew, and one other couple, were aboard a sailboat headed to Nantucket, Massachusetts. The boat was struck by a huge wave, causing the GPS system on the boat to malfunction.
gps tracking blackberryNYC Employee Busted by Cell Phone’s GPS Tracking System. Caught Falsifying His Time-Records.
When he accepted a cell phone from his employer in 2005, John Halpin never guessed that a perk would get him fired.
John Haplin worked for the NYC school system as a carpenter supervisor for 21 years. According to city officials, he was falsifying his time-records.
Determined to nail the former Washington, DC, nightclub owner, federal prosecutors have announced they will seek to retry Jones without the evidence garnered by the GPS tracking device, and they want him securely behind bars until they get around to doing so.
February 21, 2012 – 1:45 am
A Senate committee has rejected legislation that would have made it illegal to secretly use an electronic tracking device to track a person’s movements.
The Courts of Justice Committee voted 9-6 Monday to kill the GPS tracking bill.
February 17, 2012 – 7:51 am
In 2010, the Solid Waste Management Department in Albuquerque, NM, wanted to improve the efficiency of the city’s garbage routes. So the city installed GPS tracking devices in each of the city’s garbage trucks.
Chief Operations Officer John Soladay said the City saved over $750,000 in fuel and maintenance costs, by taking data from the GPS devices and re-routing existing routes.
The city became much more efficient, all right – plus a whole lot more.
Two drivers were even caught operating side businesses with their garbage trucks – all on the taxpayer’s dime.
February 14, 2012 – 10:18 am
The House voted 88-10 to pass Delegate Joe May’s bill. May introduced the legislation at the request of a constituent who was shocked to discover that a private investigator hired by his estranged wife had legally installed a GPS tracking system on the undercarriage of his car.
The bill, currently on its way to the Senate, would make it illegal for anyone to use a GPS tracking system to monitor a person’s location without his or her consent. The bill carves out exemptions for police with warrants, parents tracking their kids, any legal representative of an incapacitated adult, owners of fleet vehicles and electronic communications providers such as OnStar and cell phone companies.
February 9, 2012 – 11:17 am
cocktail waitress uniformTracking System Uses RFID Technology to Monitor Linens and Garments
Casinos such as Rivers Casino in Des Plaines, IL and the Odawa Casino Resort in Petoskey, MI are using advanced tracking systems that use high-tech radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology to monitor their garments, linens and uniforms.
Why? An RFID tracking system can help to tighten loss control and reduces costs in non-revenue producing departments of their large scale facilities.
February 1, 2012 – 1:44 am
he Supreme Court ruled last week that the police violated the Constitution when they hid a Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking device on a man’s car and monitored his movements for 28 days.
The Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling was an important one for all U.S. citizens, yet the court left many questions unanswered.
The NY Times once dubbed the case, U.S. v. Jones, “the most important Fourth Amendment case in a decade.” It is the first time the Supreme Court confronted the government’s growing use of digital technology to monitor Americans and ruled strongly in favor of privacy.
January 24, 2012 – 2:52 am
GPS tracking, law enforcement and 4th Amendment privacy rights. Police cannot put a GPS tracking device on a suspect’s car to track his movements without a warrant.
January 13, 2012 – 10:45 am
The FBI became aware of the situation and started to suspect that Mr. Robinson was a “no-show” employee at the St. Louis City Treasurer’s Office, alleging that he collected $175,000 in paychecks without ever actually going to work.
So the FBI secretly placed a GPS tracking device onto the bottom of his Chevrolet Cavalier and used it to track his whereabouts for the next two months. What the FBI found Mr. Robinson doing during work hours was unbelievable…
Using data gathered from the GPS tracking device, Special Agent Monique Comeau testified in a St. Louis Court that Robinson was not doing any of the work that he claimed to be doing on the time sheets that he submitted to his bosses. She testified that Robinson typically had a much more relaxed schedule, leaving his house at 9 a.m., spending an hour at a local diner, then driving between his second job as the head of a charter school and his third job, starting his own day care.
Fox News reported that Robinson “spent more time eating than working.”
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