dhs to fly its own "birds"

Although the implications of a handheld unit are sizable. No longer will cops have to get a search warrant to see what is in your trunk/house/storage unit whatever. I imagine using the handheld scanner will be presented as much like looking in your window and therefore permissable.

 

That's exactly my concern. I can already hear it in court:

"How can it be considered private when it's right there, in plain sight, behind that cinder block wall?"

 

We used to have a "reasonable expectation of privacy", standing next to someone making a cell call and over hearing the conversation is legal; if someone goes into a phone booth and closes the door he has "a reasonable expectation of privacy," and you need a warrant to breach that.:your home is surrounded by your property ( your "curtiledge")and walking up on the curtilege to peer through the window was/is an invasion of privacy.

 

I wonder when those do become normal in every squad car assumeing that it is determined to be the same as things they can look in the window and see, if it will then be probable cause to physicaly search a vehicle that has a lead box (or otherwise blinding to the equiptment) in the trunk? Seems likely they would think so.

 

Even though I abhor the loss of personal freedom this new technology will mean - my dark sense of humor is still tweaked thinking of the highly paid No Such Agency techie staring into his monitor, zooming in on my home, to see that over-sized individual sitting at his monitor, reading the latest doings on the Monkey forums . . .
Gonna be a very boring shift for him . . . .

"Dang it, he isn't DOING anything! Lets zoom in on the Nudie bar in town . . . !"

 

Just wrong...the above post got me thinking of another means of punishing the snoops. Since the forums at least dont have visual then some of the big furry monkeys could always bear all for the eye in the sky...that should get most anyone to shut off their monitor. lol