Is a Thermal Imaging search needful of a warrant?
George at Orwellian.Org
George at Orwellian.Org
Mon Feb 19 16:14:55 PST 2001
The U.S. Supreme Court will be deciding soon.
Previously:
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Is it okay for the government to look at your property while walking by and
if the officer spots marijuana plants growing to get a search warrant?
Of course it is.
* "The Right To Privacy", ISBN 0-679-74434-7, 1997
* By Attorneys Ellen Alderman and [The] Caroline Kennedy
*
* ...then the Supreme Court ruled that if the yard was big enough that "An
* individual may not legitimately demand privacy for activities conducted
* out of doors in fields," the Court wrote, "except in the area immediately
* surrounding the home."
*
* ...then the Supreme Court ruled that a barn sixty yards from a farmhouse
* was too far away from a house to expect privacy.
*
* ...then the Supreme Court ruled that aerial surveillance did not constitute
* a Fourth Amendment search.
*
* ...then the Supreme Court ruled that a "precision aerial mapping camera"
* that was able to capture objects as small as one-half inch in diameter did
* not constitute a Fourth Amendment search.
...then courts ruled that infrared surveillance of homes was permissible.
What is this?
* Subject: Re: Law Enforcement Aviation
* From: aufsj at imap2.asu.edu
* Date: 1996/12/27
* Newsgroups: rec.aviation.military
*
* What interests me is how new technologies will be interpreted. I recently
* inquired at the local Law School about the courts views towards the use
* of impulse radar, and they said "Impulse what the heck?"
*
* Basically it is a radar that "sees through" things (like, say, your
* house).
*
* Their capabilities vary widely, but the feds are already using
* them and I know that Hughes corp. is designing a low-cost set up
* specifically for major police departments.
*
* They are driving towards a unit that can be mounted on a police helicopter.
*
* Will the police need a warrant? Who knows. Since they are allowed
* to do airborne infra-red analysis of your house, why not an take an
* airborne "x-ray" equivalent?
*
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* Steven J Forsberg at aufsj at imap2.asu.edu Wizard 87-01
MSNBC showed a police car mounted device that scans through
our clothes [for gun metal] as they drive around.
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Here's the URL to the current story, which
made it onto Rather Evening News this evening.
http://cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,272897-412,00.shtml
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