Posted on 01/19/2015 8:58:11 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
* At least 50 U.S. law enforcement agencies now have access to radar devices that enable them to effectively see into people's homes
* The technology has been available for more than two years, but only come to light during a federal appeals court hearing in Denver last month
* The use of the technology adds to growing concerns about government surveillance and also raises legal and privacy issues
At least 50 U.S. law enforcement agencies now have access to radar devices that enable them to effectively see into people’s homes and determine if anyone is inside.
Although the FBI, U.S. Marshals Service and others have had the technology for more than two years, it only come to light during a federal appeals court hearing in Denver last month.
During the case it emerged that officers had used the Range-R device before they entered a house to arrest a man wanted for violating his parole.
The judges in the case expressed alarm that agents had used the technology without a search warrant in line with the U.S. Supreme Court's advice.
‘The government's warrantless use of such a powerful tool to search inside homes poses grave Fourth Amendment questions,’ said the judges....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The judicial branch always somberly says crap like this— just before they once again rule in favor of the inexorable expansion State power. It's all for the the benefit of We the People, of course.
I guess the phony hand-wringing and feigned concern & deliberation is intended to convince We the People that the inevitable decision to further obliterate Fourth Amendment protections was oh-so-painfully anguished over, before the regrettably necessary Tyranny was fomented as usual.
Drop by drop by drop, inch by inch by inch: it never ends, and it always goes in the direction— less Freedom.
Funny how it always works out that way, isn't it?
At this point, who are they trying to fool?
"A Republic, if we can keep it", indeed!
Nonsense. They're looking through walls. How are they going to know which person they're snooping on?
No sir, I don't like it...
Another aspect that does not lead to criminal prosecution is the blackmail aspect of it. Knowing who is having an affair with whom and holding that info is a huge deal.
DK
If you’re not doing anything wrong, what are you worried about? /s
Yes, that’s another angle I was thinking of working into the story. That would be how the intelligence agencies gained control of all the politicians, since they could make or break any of them with the dirty laundry they knew.
“How are they going to know which person they’re snooping on?”
I imagine that would actually be fairly simple, nowadays, though probably not for local police.
You could use the instruments to record someone when they are outside of the home, so you know who it is, then analyze that data and find a “thermal signature”. If the instrument is sensitive enough, everyone’s body must emit some slightly unique pattern, that a computer could map and then track with pattern recognition.
There are a dozen jokes just layin there
lol
There’s interior paint now that keeps WiFi inside a dwelling.
It wasn’t for a “baby monitor” it was for a SWAT team pre-entry recce to determine where in a room humans are.
You know? That might be a “selling” point for a house with lead based paint! :0)
There is more concern to this than just about respecting our Constitutional rights, which obviously the government and police do not. What about health? This device is sending electronic signal / radiation into the target home to see what is there. And strong enough to penetrate multiple walls varying thickness and composition. This isn’t the simple scanners at the airport that have already been removed for, among other reasons, safety concerns. The unknowning residents are being irradiated and some percentage will get cancer and die. Killed by the government.
The 4th Amendment is absolutely clear. FedGov needs a warrant based on probable cause to use this. Otherwise, this device is as big a danger to free people as illegal aliens (including the at least culturally foreign invader in our White House), drug dealers, ISIS, and America's other enemies.
Solution: lead lined drywall for your exterior walls, just like the kind they use in dentist offices.
Doing some config work on my Mac last night, I noticed that the list of wireless networks available - other than the usual ones, included one called FBI Surveillance Van ...
Hmmm... I have that in my roof...
If the police have the legal authority to enter the home, I can see the courts supporting the use of this equipment for safety purposes.
The courts won’t allow them to use it for fishing expeditions, though. They’ll need a search warrant.
Even if a warrant is required, one can’t trust this regime and its appointed communist judges.
Maybe the police should use this technology to find out how many Islamists are gathering in the white hive.
Just call it Minority Report and be done. ;)
lol...I named my wifi that as well..
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