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Riser crafts GPS spy bill
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In Louisiana and most other states it's legal to spy on people by using Global Positioning Systems — found these days in many cellular telephones and vehicles — to track their movements, but that could soon change.

State Sen. Neil Riser, a Republican who represents District 32, has authored a bill to prohibit electronic tracking of the movement of a person without their consent.

Georgia has a similar law and Louisiana would be the second state to protect residents' privacy by banning GPS spying, Riser said.

"Your first instinct would lead you to think that this is already against the law, but it's not," he said. "It's very easy to track people this way."

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