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Police used to use airplane based thermal imaging looking for homes which were abnormally warm, back before LEDs. Kyllo v. United States Went to the Supreme Cou
by jmpman 1y ago
Police used to use airplane based thermal imaging looking for homes which were abnormally warm, back before LEDs. Kyllo v. United States Went to the Supreme Court and found this as a “search”.
“Where, as here, the Government uses a device that is not in general public use, to explore details of the home that would previously have been unknowable without physical intrusion, the surveillance is a ‘search’ and is presumptively unreasonable without a warrant.”
The argument seems to cover this scenario too?
- jmpman 1y agoYou can think of your home as a literal black box. In this case a black box radiator. If the police are unable to look at the emissions, because they could reveal illegal activity, then why can they look at energy usage, which is a proxy for the same thing?