From: "Peter Trei" <trei@process.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 02:03:11 +0800
To: <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: [NOISE] "X-Ray Gun" for imperceptible searches
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Tim writes:

> I don't see how "remote scanning" of the population at large, without
> probable cause, is much different from the cops listening in from a
> distance with parabolic antennas. Both cases involve detection of signals
> emitted from the target. And yet such long-distance interception is not
> allowed without a warrant.

I vaguely remember another possibly relevant precedent, where a
judge ruled that a warrant was required before a thermal imager
could be used to look at a house suspected by the police of
being a (pot) grow house.

Peter Trei
trei@process.com