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> the "inviolability of the home" human dignity concept doesn't exist in the US. Maybe not under that term, but for example, almost the only place an American'
by mmooss 11mo ago
> the "inviolability of the home" human dignity concept doesn't exist in the US.
Maybe not under that term, but for example, almost the only place an American's 4th Amendment protections against search and seizure apply is in their home. Law enforcement can search their garbage at the curb, monitor their [edit: public] movements via camera and license plate monitoring, etc., look them up online, all without warrants [*]. They can't do that in someone's home.
[*] I'm pretty sure no warrant is required to search curbside trash or do most online research.
- hrimfaxi 11mo agoThe trash search thing varies by state at least.
- jandrewrogers 11mo agoThe boundaries of your "home" varies by State. For example, in some States the interior of your car is part of your home even when not at home, which occasionally has entertaining implications.
- stronglikedan 11mo ago> the interior of your car is part of your home Especially when you exclusively enter and exit the car inside your garage! /s
- jeffbee 11mo agoThis article is not about warrantless searches of homes, though. In America, courts can and do order the police to secretly enter a domicile and install surveillance devices.
- elcritch 11mo agoIt also appears this Herman law allows “no knock” search warrants, which in the US are generally considered more serious and more restricted.
- perihelions 11mo agoThe distinction here is whether police can secretly enter a home to plant bugs, &c. In the US, this is routine; in Germany, this is (was?) taboo. (FYI, you can escape * as \* to get it to display as *).
- mmooss 11mo agoThanks for the tip!
- andrepd 11mo agoIs this even practical anymore? A non-technical person can set up video surveillance on their home for a couple hundred bucks. Why wouldn't a criminal do that? I think the days of the FBI planting a microphone in a lamp on Tony Soprano's basement are over.
- fragmede 11mo agoI read in the papers that the cheap cameras are over wifi, so thieves are using wifi jammers to take them offline during the heist.
- marginalia_nu 11mo agoIt's hard to set up video surveillance in your home without inadvertently providing much of the surveillance data the law enforcement officers were after, especially for non-technical people.
- andrepd 11mo agoGood point!
- breppp 11mo agoThe FBI has an array of readymade zero day exploits, it is probably able to handle Tony Sporano's Chinese knockoff video survelliance
- tptacek 11mo agoI think the "inviolability" thing is useful just to understand what's actually happening here, but it's also important to understand that the US and Germany have very different criminal justice, search, and evidentiary systems. Germany doesn't have an exclusionary rule for evidence, for instance.