50 U.S. Law Enforcement Agencies Have Purchased Radars That Can See Through Walls To Identify “Suspects” A radar system that can see inside houses has been secretly purchased by at least 50 law enforcement agencies across the country, USA Today reports. The FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service are among the agencies using the high-tech device, with little notice, the paper said. The equipment can detect whether someone is inside a building and where they are. Use of the devices has raised privacy concerns — especially involving police being able to see inside a structure without first obtaining a search warrant. In December, a federal appeals court in Denver seemed alarmed that officers had used the Range-R device to peer inside a home before arresting a man for violating parole, the paper reported. “The government’s warrantless use of such a powerful tool to search inside homes poses grave Fourth Amendment questions,” the court said. The Marshals Service has spent $180,000 on the instruments since 2012, USA Today said. Radar devices were first designed for wartime use in Afghanistan and Iraq, and their deployment in civilian life brings complicated legal issues still being argued in the judicial system.
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 21:58:59 +0000
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