• Lojcs
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    1 year ago

    So they can use thermal imaging from outside the house to watch the people inside? That’s bs

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      1 year ago

      Police are not allowed to use anything other than the ‘naked eye’ (their own senses) without a warrant.

      If this includes police dogs (it does, the SC ruled on this and a conservative justice wrote the majority opinion), it includes drones (with or without thermal cameras).

      NYC will see a lawsuit out of this for sure.

    • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      How do you think they catch grow-houses? They thermal scan neighborhoods for heat signatures from the grow lights. Cops are masters of subverting the law to do whatever they want.

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      I know thermal imaging has been used to look for marijuana farms, back when grow lamps were incandescent and houses would stand out as hot. But I don’t know if they had warrants for those or not.

      But to actually use imaging, whether it’s thermal, radio, or X-ray, to see through a wall, is definitely considered a search.

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      Thermal cameras can’t see through glass, but they could be used to see if a building is significantly warmer than the surrounding structures.