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In a very minor victory on the road to preventing a dystopian future of pervasive surveillence, Senior U.S. District Court Judge Edward Shea ruled that warrantless and constant covert video surveillance of someone's rural front yard is contrary to the public's reasonable expectation of privacy and violates Defendant's Fourth Amendment rights. Thanks go to the EFF for submitting an amicus brief in the case.
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Continuous Surveillence of Public Space Ruled Unconstitutional
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(Score: 1) by Anal Pumpernickel on Wednesday December 17 2014, @04:08AM
On the other hand....it was a FRONT yard. In what world do you have a "reasonable expectation of privacy" in a place that can be seen from a public street?
Irrelevant. Being seen by someone is 100% different from being recorded by government technology. The footage all goes to a central source (the government) that can legally ruin your life (or even do so illegally without facing many repercussions), the recordings are generally accurate (unlike human memories), and also unlike human memory, it can stick around for years and years.
Mass public surveillance shouldn't be permissible. Don't let anyone delude you into believing that you have no privacy whatsoever in public places; we should have privacy from mass (or unjustly targeted) government surveillance.