| ▲ | Manuel_D 6 hours ago |
| Whether or not the government needs a warrant to surveil someone depends on how the government is conducting that surveillance. The government does, for instance, need a warrant to wiretap you. They do not need a warrant to record people in public spaces. Nor do they need a warrant to, say, photograph the exterior of your house. |
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| ▲ | text0404 6 hours ago | parent [-] |
| But they need a warrant to follow me around, record my movements, put them into a database which is searchable by other law enforcement. They're not taking a single photograph of a car, they're creating a database of movement of people who have not committed crimes. |
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| ▲ | Manuel_D 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | No, they do not need a warrant to follow you in public. What more is there to say, besides that you're just wrong about what privacy laws protect? | | |
| ▲ | text0404 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | They need a warrant if they're going to record and track my movements over the course of months. | | |
| ▲ | Manuel_D 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | If they're only tracking your movements in public, the no they do not. Again, you're just wrong about what privacy laws protect. They do not prohibit the police from surveilling or tracking you, they only control how the police is able to conduct that surveillance. If the police want to search your house or car, they need a warrant or at least probable cause for the latter. If they want to photograph you in public, they do not. | |
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