TIME.com: Nation -- Supreme Court: Relax. The Heat is Off

Declan McCullagh declan at well.com
Thu Jun 14 12:28:30 PDT 2001


This note below by "cubic-dog" is nonsense.

The Suprmee Court explicitly ruled this week that "this type of
surveillance" is *not* permitted without a warrant because it is invasive.

-Declan

On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 10:05:12AM -0400, cubic-dog wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, John Young wrote:
> 
> > Let me try again after reading Time's Q&A and the responding
> > attorney claiming that anything inside a home is protected but
> > nothing outside it is.
> 
> Well, this is pretty much pure bullshit. 
> 
> The LE folks are hip to using ir imaging to figure
> out who is running a whole lotta lights inside at
> night to determine who is doing home cultivation. 
> 
> They use this technique as probable cause to request
> a (rubber stamped) search warrant. Not the other way
> around.
> 
> This type of surveillence is allowed without warrent 
> because it is non-invasive. 





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