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Technologically Enhanced Visual Surveillance And The Fourth Amendment: Sophistication, Availability And The Expectation Of Privacy, Clifford S. Fishman
Technologically Enhanced Visual Surveillance And The Fourth Amendment: Sophistication, Availability And The Expectation Of Privacy, Clifford S. Fishman
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Since 1983, however, seven Supreme Court decisions have focused at least in part upon application of the Fourth Amendment to technological enhancement of, or technological substitution for, visual surveillance: United States v. Dunn and Texas v. Brown (artificial illumination); United States v. Knotts and United States v. Karo (electronic tracking devices); California v. Ciraolo9 and Florida v. Riley (aerial surveillance); and Dow Chemical Co. v. United States (image-magnifying aerial photography). Reaction to many of these decisions has been highly critical.
In six of the seven cases, investigators refrained from intruding physically into a location protected by the Fourth Amendment. The …