There's no doubt in my mind this will be abused. Police safety my ass. Next thing these peeping pervs will be peering in people bedrooms.WASHINGTON — At least 50 U.S. law enforcement agencies have secretly equipped their officers with radar devices that allow them to effectively peer through the walls of houses to see whether anyone is inside, a practice raising new concerns about the extent of government surveillance.
Those agencies, including the FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service, began deploying the radar systems more than two years ago with little notice to the courts and no public disclosure of when or how they would be used. The technology raises legal and privacy issues because the U.S. Supreme Court has said officers generally cannot use high-tech sensors to tell them about the inside of a person's house without first obtaining a search warrant.
"The idea that the government can send signals through the wall of your house to figure out what's inside is problematic," said Christopher Soghoian, the American Civil Liberties Union's principal technologist. "Technologies that allow the police to look inside of a home are among the intrusive tools that police have."
New police radars can 'see' inside homes
There's no doubt in my mind this will be abused. Police safety my ass. Next thing these peeping pervs will be peering in people bedrooms.
If it is true, it's truly a disgusting attack against the Constitution and freedom. If true, all those who had anything to do with the creation and execution of this order should be fired and barred from public service.
The Constitution just prevents the information from being used against you in court. It doesn't keep people from doing it.
New police radars can 'see' inside homes
There's no doubt in my mind this will be abused. Police safety my ass. Next thing these peeping pervs will be peering in people bedrooms.
Requiring warrants and the idea of privacy is pretty much over, huh?
Requiring warrants and the idea of privacy is pretty much over, huh?
In the article it states the Supreme Court already ruled that they need a warrant for such technology.
So they're just not following the established law.
Nope, search and seizure require warrants or sufficient probable cause too. We mostly ignore that, but this would be a search and subject to the restraints of the 4th. Remember that amendment? Most don't.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,[a] against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
In the article it states the Supreme Court already ruled that they need a warrant for such technology.
So they're just not following the established law.
Technically one could sue the officer in common law tort but they would have trouble knowing who was watching them, when, or be able to prove it if they are inside their home. The exclusionary rule is the only meaningful 4th amendment violation remedy in this situation unless states enacted laws against it and would then prosecute the cops who did it (but they won't)
The cops are but the ones following orders, it's the politicians issuing the orders that are at fault. Violations of rights are just that, and we have the right to secure our persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.
Well if you want to secure your house by wrapping it in tin foil, go ahead. In the meantime, not a lot you could do to stop it or remedy it. Hell even if it criminalized if the police did it they would still get away with it because they would have a good faith argument along the lines of "Well they gave me the x-ray vision gun so I felt I had a right to use it".
In the article it states the Supreme Court already ruled that they need a warrant for such technology.
So they're just not following the established law.
Ahh yes, might makes right. Never been a believer in that logic, sorry.
Doesn't matter what you believe. Reality is what it is. If they find cocaine in your house, you can bet that the Supreme Court will carve out the Ikari exception to the 4th amendment, the Declaration of Independence, the Magna carta, and the Marquess of Queensberry rules if that is what it takes to keep you in the clinker.
Yes yes, an argument of tyranny. Don't accept it. Appeal to authority is logical fallacy.
Appeals to reality are not.
Bringing us back to the aged old question of "who polices the police"?
New police radars can 'see' inside homes
There's no doubt in my mind this will be abused. Police safety my ass. Next thing these peeping pervs will be peering in people bedrooms.
New police radars can 'see' inside homes
There's no doubt in my mind this will be abused. Police safety my ass. Next thing these peeping pervs will be peering in people bedrooms.
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