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Not anymore with police drone and helicopter surveillance.
by V__ 3y ago
Not anymore with police drone and helicopter surveillance.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y agoThe "reasonable expectation of privacy" is referring to legal arguments which are made about individual privacy in public spaces. I don't study these things so I may simply be naive but I don't think this argument has been made in the context of a drone camera seeing someone commit a crime in their own backyard.
- AlbertCory 3y agoWrong. As someone else said, the fact that the police could observe you masturbating in your back yard or plotting a crime, for instance, doesn't mean that they could prosecute you for it. Because you have the aforementioned expectation. For the "plotting" thing they'd need a warrant.
- jstarfish 3y ago[dead]
- V__ 3y ago> under the Fourth Amendment, aerial surveillance of an individual’s property does not inherently constitute a search for which law enforcement must obtain a warrant. > What these cases, among others, underscore is that the aerial surveillance doctrine only provides courts with a blueprint–not a clear, unambiguous pathway–to reach a judgment in Fourth Amendment cases. > [16 states] have passed laws requiring that law enforcement obtain a search warrant before using drones for surveillance purposes. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_surveillance_doctrine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_surveillance_doctrine It's not cut-and-dry, depends on the courts whim and your state.
- AlbertCory 3y agoSo you may have privacy rights, or not. SCOTUS to rule someday.
- diogenes4 3y agoThe expectation of privacy is changing with technology, and the police are actively pushing these boundaries. For instance, see: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/new-york-police-drones-monitor-backyard-parties-weekend-102845003 https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/new-york-police-drones-m...