New police radars can ‘see’ inside homes
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/01/19/police-radar-see-through-walls/22007615/
WASHINGTON — At least 50 U.S. law enforcement agencies have secretly equipped their officers with radar devices that allow them to effectively peer through the walls of houses to see whether anyone is inside, a practice raising new concerns about the extent of government surveillance.
Those agencies, including the FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service, began deploying the radar systems more than two years ago with little notice to the courts and no public disclosure of when or how they would be used. The technology raises legal and privacy issues because the U.S. Supreme Court has said officers generally cannot use high-tech sensors to tell them about the inside of a person’s house without first obtaining a search warrant.
Those concerns are especially thorny when it comes to technology that lets the police determine what’s happening inside someone’s home. The Supreme Court ruled in 2001 that the Constitution generally bars police from scanning the outside of a house with a thermal camera unless they have a warrant, and specifically noted that the rule would apply to radar-based systems that were then being developed.
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This is so against our constitution! Where is the outrage at? Hello ACLU? The problem with protesting against the use of this technology is law enforcement will point out the benefit of using it to get a really bad guy (like the Boston bomber guy) and since everyone can agree that he needed to be caught as soon as possible everyone’s Ok with it. The problem is that we are not looking at the long term implications for using such technology against ordinary citizens. Costa Rica or some isolated island in the South Pacific sounds better and better every day.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/26/us/supreme-court-cellphones-search-privacy.html
If they want any of my electronic devices that bad…they have to work for them, and anything else for that matter…I don’t consent to searches, politely of course
This is in Revelations in a round about way.
I also believe there was a case that applied to police hi ding a GPS tracking device on your vehicle without a warrant and most recently SCOTUS ruled the police CANNOT search your cell phone without one. Everyone be sure lock their phones with a PIN number now. Shouldn’t be long for a court challenge on this. Chipping away at our rights little by little folks……..
I remember hearing that the cops couldn’t make you put your password into your phone but COULD require you to put your finger on the new Iphones where your finger print is your password. My last laptop.. you could turn on facial recognition on the build in camera to by pass the password to log in. You can almost be assured that cops will find some way to skirt the law and use your own technology against you 🙁