Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 15:58:31 -0400 From: freematt@coil.com (Matthew Gaylor) Subject: Police CCTV wardriving/whacking To: freematt@coil.com (Matthew Gaylor)
[Note from Matthew Gaylor: Aimee is a lawyer from Waco, Texas who specializes in surveillance law.]
Sent: 2 Aug 2001 20:29:14 GMT From: Aimee Farr <aimee.farr@POBOX.COM> Subject: Police CCTV wardriving/whacking
(If I had to guess how the Privacy Foundation would buzzword it...)
http://detnews.com/2001/livingston/010731/b05l-256715.htm Schools study security cameras System would allow officials to monitor events from laptops
What's next
Law enforcement officials will meet with representatives from the Livingston County Board of Commissioners on Aug. 6 at the jail to demonstrate the camera system that allows the officials to monitor prisoners and the happenings inside the jail.
By Steve Pardo / The Detroit News
HOWELL -- A camera system that allows law enforcement officials to see what's going on inside buildings from the safety of their patrol cars could be coming to area schools.
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As to the private sector.... See United States v. White, 401 U.S. 745 (1971)(in a participant monitoring/consensual surveillance situation, (a wired informant, either recording or transmitting, don't be fooled by "consensual") one bears the risk of betrayal. Stands for the general proposition that private parties can share information with the government. There are opinions and arguments to the contrary, but mostly ased on specific privacy acts or specific right-to-privacy provisions in state constitutions.Considering the money going for mobile police computing and "policecompuwear" with facial recognition, somebody is probably going to raise hell about this.
~Aimee
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