CDR: Re: police IR searches to Supremes

[Sampo A Syreeni]

On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Steve Furlong wrote:

>>  Supreme Court to hear thermal peeking case
>>  By MICHAEL KIRKLAND
>
><<snip most of the article>>
>
>I don't see how any rational mind could see this type of search as
>allowed under the US 4th Amendment. Too bad no jurist has asked my
>opinion.

Well, I think that as long as a conventional photograph is taken from a
public place, it does not constitute a punishable breach of privacy. What's
so very different about doing the same thing with IR?

Sampo Syreeni <decoy at iki.fi>, aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university