Afifi posted pictures and his story on Reddit while a friend contemplated cunning things to do with it, sticking it to someone else's car or selling it on Craigslist.

ENGADGET: American student finds GPS tracker stuck to car, FBI shows up to reclaim its 'federal property'

An Arab-America citizen called Yasir Afifi sued the FBI for violating his privacy rights by placing a tracking device on his car without a warrant because of his racial background.

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The ACLU is working with Afifi to fight that ruling, and for now we're hoping that he, who is an American with an Egyptian father, is currently able to hit the town without agents following his every move.

ENGADGET: American student finds GPS tracker stuck to car, FBI shows up to reclaim its 'federal property'

Mechanics spot strange things stuck under cars all the time, but when 20-year-old Yasir Afifi's ride was put up on lifts his shop found something that hadn't been kicked up from the road: a cylindrical tube connected to a device with an antenna.

ENGADGET: American student finds GPS tracker stuck to car, FBI shows up to reclaim its 'federal property'

For evidence of the creepy potential of social media monitoring, look no further than a story last week in which 20-year-old Arab American Yasir Afifi found a GPS tracking device attached to his car, posted a picture online, and promptly received a visit from FBI agents asking for him to give it back.

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