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The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that police must obtain a warrant before tracking a suspect’s car with GPS. Using electronic surveillance is allowed in public spaces, but physically placing a GPS in a suspect’s car is considered an unlawful search that violates the Fourth Amendment. In other news, Apple recently launched its digital textbook initiative and it’s already gaining popularity. Within days of being available, over 350,000 digital textbooks were downloaded. While a number of those downloads can be attributed to a free e-book being offered, the iPad only textbooks are already gaining momentum. And finally, YouTube announced that it now streams a staggering 4 billion videos a day. The online video site is still growing in popularity, seeing a 25% increase in views in the past eight months. YouTube is generating about $5 billion a year in advertising revenue.