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A 4 page research paper that discusses the advent of new technologies, focusing specifically on satellite surveillance and thermal imaging, as a threat to privacy. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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their homes, often for little or no cause. Consequently, the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States prohibits unreasonable searches, but the drafters of the Constitution did not
specify what constitutes an "unreasonable" search (Colbridge, 2001). The Supreme Court eventually ruled that citizens have the right to a reasonable expectation of privacy (Colbridge, 2001). With todays rapidly advancing
technology, however, the chances of maintaining a traditional sense of privacy are becoming more and more unlikely. Two technological innovations threatening privacy are satellite surveillance and thermal imaging. The
police do not need to enter a suspects house to check for certain illegal activities. Sitting in a squad car and using thermal imaging technology, police can virtually see through
walls (Dasbach, 2001). In the case of Danny Kyllo, an Oregon man who was convicted of growing marijuana, the police scanned his house with thermal imaging equipment and detected evidence
of high-intensity growth lamps (Dasbach, 2001). Thermal imaging is not a new technology, as it has been used by both the military and law enforcement officers for years (Colbridge, 2001).
It is not unusual to see thermal images of battlefields, for example, on the nightly news. Thermal images detect infrared radiation and coverts it into a black-and-white picture, with hotter
areas in the picture appearing lighter and colder areas appearing as dark areas (Colbridge, 2001). The question of whether or not this constituted an invasion of privacy went all
the way to the US Supreme Court, which ruled that --indeed--Kyllos privacy had been breached and use of such equipment requires a search warrant (Greenhouse, 2001). Writing for the majority,
Justice Antonin Scalia stated that "We must take the long view, from the original meaning of the Fourth Amendment forward" (Greenhouse, 2001). Scalia said that any other approach to
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