On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]> wrote: > > that makes sense. the person in their back yard has a reasonable sense > of privacy. Now what if its a rape or murder?
The crime, to me, does not matter. It's the judicial approval process (or general lack there of). You could have a cop do a drive by of the house that cops have some suspicions about without raising much of a civil liberties concern. Hell, probably ask a car from each shift to drive by and keep an eye out on the way back to the precinct and not need a warrant. Now contrast this with a drone. You can have a drone do continuous monitoring of a house for 20 hours non-stop (according to the linked article). It is my understanding that newer generations of drones can go for days at a time. They are recording high resolution video footage and heat sensor information at the very least. I'd personally bet on LIDAR (ground penetrating radar) and directional audio mics plus a bunch of stuff I don't even know about. And it's all invisible to the naked eye. And currently done without a warrant. And there aren't any rules on how long agencies get to keep all the raw data. Or who it gets shared with. Or how to exclude information about people who aren't an investigation target. All that last stuff? That's what I have a problem with. It's technology jumped way ahead of law, once again. I'm not opposed to judicious use of drones for very specific monitoring situations as long as there is a warrant process, judicial oversight of evidence collection and firm rules on evidence usage and sharing with substantial penalties for overstepping bounds. The legal framework needs to come back to the forefront and we need to build out a first-principles based legal notion of a right to privacy and a frame work for strong protection of 4th amendment rights in a modern technological society. Until we get there, we need to push back, hard, on every little potential encroachment because it has been shown time and again that even the smallest leeway will result in our rights headed to a black site somewhere. Judah ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:351620 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
