Those seemingly untechnical UPS drivers serve as a linchpin in the company's vast electronic tracking system.
The consultants had, after all, worked with the postal service on electronic tracking and with electric utilities on using smart meters.
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At issue is whether electronic tracking is comparable to such routine surveillance as following a suspect in an unmarked police car on city streets, as the federal government argues.
The Consumers Union, which campaigns on behalf of individual customers, wants Congress to require food producers to use an electronic tracking system like the one Federal Express employs for parcels.
For years, courts have wrestled with how electronic tracking fits with the Constitution's prohibition against searching a home, for instance, unless police can persuade a judge to sign a search warrant.
Now he might as well buy an iPhone: As of Tuesday, the WikiLeaks founder agreed to wear an electronic tracking device as part of the terms of his bail conditions, reports the Guardian.
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As a result, 12 states have moved to an electronic-tracking system that alerts pharmacists so they can stop people from buying more than the legal limit of pseudoephedrine.
After 10 years, people with provisional legal status could apply for permanent residency if the new security and fencing plans were operating, a new mandatory employment verification system was in place, and a new electronic exit system was tracking who leaves the country.
For example, command and control systems would coordinate precision strikes and electronic warfare by locating, tracking, attacking, and assessing the damage to enemy targets.
He has been tracking the Syrian Electronic Army since May 2011, when it first emerged as an organized group with a Facebook page and then its own website.
One of the major reforms is expanding the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model, in which a single provider or practice coordinates patient care, including tracking referrals, maintaining electronic health records and communicating data to other providers.
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Hence concerns in law-enforcement circles that new forms of electronic money could render obsolete traditional methods of tracking tainted money, which rely heavily on the policing of bank transactions.
Hormann was convicted of stalking his wife and violating a Minnesota law that criminalizes surreptitious electronic monitoring of another individual, including with a tracking device.
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An increasingly popular way people are trying to coax more exercise into their lives is by tracking their movements using a bevy of small electronic devices from companies like Fitbit Inc.
The original tracking stock was an "E" class of share that General Motors issued in 1984 to take over Electronic Data Systems.
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