Warrant? We don’t need no stinking warrant

Posted in uncategorized on July 30th, 2013 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |

Earl Harding Says:
July 30th, 2013 at 8:36 pm
Tricky one legally.

They don’t need a warrant to tail you in a car. And they don’t need a warrant to follow you from a helicopter either. Both of these are well established legally from the understanding that you have no expectation of privacy in public. Anyone can in fact follow you. That last point has been recently in the public eye shall we say.

There isn’t a whole hill of beans difference between a drone and a helicopter other than size and cost of operation. So I actually think the FBI are correct in their interpretation under current law.

Not that I like it I hasten to add.

The issue is that technology keeps lowering the bar to surveillance and makes it more pervasive as a result.

It isn’t ever usually the technology that is the issue. It’s usually always the use to which is put. Databases are usually a good thing, expect when they contain all the phone calls I’ve made over the last few years.

What we need is a comprehensive overhaul of all the laws to do with surveillance so that we can get the benefits of things like drone usage and yet keep unchecked surveillance in a short leash.
Tom O'B Says:
July 31st, 2013 at 11:30 am
Big drone or small?
Large drone flying at 1500 ft. law is settled.
Small helicopter drone flying above your yard, wait a minute. You own the air space up to the roof line so where’s the warrant?

Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.

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