This is proof that the FBI, or Fucking Bastards Incorporated have always been a ratshit organization. They had a man in charge who was a cross-dressing fag, they kept files on innocent people because they 'thought' (yeah, anachronism there) that these people would do 'soemthing subversive'. Lennon, Chaplin, Monroe, even Kennedy were held to ransom by these fuckers, and now we see that this dumbfuckery they are practising is actually OK'd by certain courts! They make the KGB, MI5 and other spy organizations (including their fucked up CIA) look like honest businesses the way they carry on.
What would have happened, say, if the poor bastard who had the device was just an average Joe, with an average job, a wife, kids, and a Cuban cigar? He sells his car to some other slob, who gets pulled up by that bunch of fuckwits because their GPS has 'chucked a wobbly'. FBI - 1, poor slob - 0, because how do you fight those cunts without the proper backup?
But, apparently, other countries are starting similar shit. The UK (correct me if I'm wrong, Soph) are doing things with cameras and GPS on cars as well, mainly to track stolen vehicles. Unfortuantely, they get the details screwed up, and some innocent bastard gets caught up.
Orwell may have been writing about Stalin (as the book was published in 1949), but it seems to fit any age, and just fill in the blank with the name of the organization concerned.