Lawmakers push bill to limit GPS tracking

A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation that would require police to obtain a warrant to collect location data from a person's cellphone, tablet, car or other electronic device.

The Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance (GPS) Act, offered in the House by Reps. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), John Conyers (D-MI) and six other lawmakers, would also make it a crime to use an electronic device to surreptitiously track a person's location without their permission. Companies would also need their user's permission to share location data with third parties. Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) plan to introduce companion legislation in the Senate. Rep Chaffetz and Sen Wyden pushed similar legislation last year, but the bills never made it to committee votes.