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New Digital Surveillance Tools Threaten Gun Owner Privacy

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Talyn

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Leonardo, a company that holds multiple surveillance-related defense and government contracts, recently introduced ELSAG SignalTrace, and its hardware is being offered as a bolt-on supplement to the more than 110,000 Flock cameras taking and storing photos of vehicles on public roadways nationwide. The technology contained within that hardware could conceivably track who has recently purchased a firearm and where they're taking it.

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Technology contained within new digital surveillance hardware recently introduced by defense contractor Leonardo could conceivably track who has recently purchased firearm and where they're taking it.
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The SignalTrace webpage explains the system can detect cellphone manufacturer and make, audio system in the vehicle, smartwatches, wireless ear buds and more. Tire pressure monitors, laptops and iPads are also included as part of the “electronic fingerprint.” According to analysis by TechRepublic, this even includes those popular microchips used to reunite lost pets with their owner, along with RFID signals from tags used by many retailers for inventory convenience.

Enough FFLs use such RFID technology that the National Shooting Sports Foundation published a “Best Practices” bulletin five years before Leonardo’s introduction. The trade organization’s advice is straightforward.

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Big Brother is watching....

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I suppose it all depends HOW its used. We seem not to have a problem with cameras to monitor traffic flow and certainly everyone with a Ring door bell is OK monitoring passersby. Hunters use trail cams to monitor the woods. And I bet no one minds when Police use any surveillance cameras to catch a rapist. So we are back to HOW new equipment is being or maybe used.

Is there a need to monitor someone who legally purchase a gun...Probably hard to justify that one; unless maybe a Straw Purchase is believed? We already know that certain manufacturers "hide" a digital code in their guns to identify the gun even if the serial number is removed. Its no different than a hidden VIN on vehicles to ID stolen cars.

I want to say Im opposed to more surveillance; but I think its just the way of the future
 
A warrant is required, absent an exception.

What the Court did not do is get into the sufficiency of the search warrant at issue in the case. The Fourth Circuit initial opinion held that geofences are not a search, so that opinion never examined the warrant. The en banc decision was a 14-14 split per curium opinion upholding the district court’s order finding that it was a search but good faith applied and then multiple opinion addressing the issues. But, early in the opinion, the Court did stress that whether a geofence warrant is constitutional depends on whether law enforcement demonstrated probable cause and particularity at each stage of the search process.

So stay tuned. This issue is far from over.
 
Warrants? We don't need no steenkin warrants!

We have been on a list of some sort since before Bush II and 9/11. Under Obama, Napolitano wanted a watch list of retiree LEOs and all veterans of military as domestic terrorists.

Yeah, I'm already on some list somewhere.....
 
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