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> Public streets are fair game for anyone with a camera, and that includes the police With the resources of modern IT, it renders the 4th Amendment almost use
by hackuser 10y ago
> Public streets are fair game for anyone with a camera, and that includes the police
With the resources of modern IT, it renders the 4th Amendment almost useless: It only applies in your windowless, lead-lined basement, with communication coming in or out.
- hackuser 10y agoSorry, that should read: "... with no communication coming in or out."
- CamperBob2 10y agoBut we're not talking about infrared cameras or wall-penetrating radar or even directional antennas... just cameras that have the same limitations as a human standing on the street corner. That, in itself, does not constitute stalking or invasion of privacy. If we pass laws saying "No cameras in public," or "No stationary cameras in public," or "No cameras capable of storing more than X megabytes of image data per day in public," or "No public cameras equipped with OCR capability," then we will handicap ourselves far more than we will the police. (Who will, in any event, simply ignore any laws they find inconvenient.)
- roywiggins 10y agoInfrared cameras need a warrant right now, so probably anything else that sees through walls into a residence would also.
- hackuser 10y agoThere are windows, garbage, the very many commercial tracking sensors in your home and your pocket, Internet connection, phone calls (at least metadata), etc. Plus everything you do outside your home. Infrared sensors are only one small possibility.