CptJake wrote:I'm saying the device lends itself to 4th amendment violations. It WILL collect on numbers other than the one the warrant would cover.
From a technical standpoint, isn't this true of pretty much
any form of surveillance though? Even a cop sitting in his car watching a house is going to see things unrelated to the person(s) they are watching.
We do it all the time in our data collections at work. It's unavoidable. The issue then is parsing down and destroying (with verification) all the data that's not related to your actual case/warrant.
Edit: To be clear, I'm with Chaffetz on this one, something I never thought I would say in my entire life time. Warrantless use of them has to go. I wouldn't be against banning their use entirely, mind you, but if they're not going to be banned they should at least require a warrant before raking in everything around them.