[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18247]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              THE GPS ACT

  (Mr. CHAFFETZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CHAFFETZ. Mr. Speaker, 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.

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