Much more eloquent than I could hope to be. Thanks.
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com>wrote: > > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > that makes sense. the person in their back yard has a reasonable sense > > of privacy. Now what if its a rape or murder? > > The crime, to me, does not matter. It's the judicial approval process > (or general lack there of). You could have a cop do a drive by of the > house that cops have some suspicions about without raising much of a > civil liberties concern. Hell, probably ask a car from each shift to > drive by and keep an eye out on the way back to the precinct and not > need a warrant. > > Now contrast this with a drone. You can have a drone do continuous > monitoring of a house for 20 hours non-stop (according to the linked > article). It is my understanding that newer generations of drones can > go for days at a time. They are recording high resolution video > footage and heat sensor information at the very least. I'd personally > bet on LIDAR (ground penetrating radar) and directional audio mics > plus a bunch of stuff I don't even know about. > > And it's all invisible to the naked eye. And currently done without a > warrant. And there aren't any rules on how long agencies get to keep > all the raw data. Or who it gets shared with. Or how to exclude > information about people who aren't an investigation target. > > All that last stuff? That's what I have a problem with. It's > technology jumped way ahead of law, once again. I'm not opposed to > judicious use of drones for very specific monitoring situations as > long as there is a warrant process, judicial oversight of evidence > collection and firm rules on evidence usage and sharing with > substantial penalties for overstepping bounds. > > The legal framework needs to come back to the forefront and we need to > build out a first-principles based legal notion of a right to privacy > and a frame work for strong protection of 4th amendment rights in a > modern technological society. Until we get there, we need to push > back, hard, on every little potential encroachment because it has been > shown time and again that even the smallest leeway will result in our > rights headed to a black site somewhere. > > Judah > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:351628 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
