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In-Depth Information “High-tech Surveillance & Informants Exploited to Enforce Land-use Regulation — Our Struggle to Raise Public Concern About Privacy and Property Rights” - By Carol W. LaGrasse (Property Rights Foundation of America, March 15, 2005) New infringements on privacy have arisen under the mantra of environmentalism, zoning, and building regulations. GIS, low-level fly-overs, and space surveillance help enforce radical regulations. Government agencies harness citizen snitches to inform on violators of environmental rules. “It Comes With A Price: U.S. Census Intrudes on Privacy” - By Carol W. LaGrasse (Property Rights Foundation of America, February 18, 2005) Twenty-four oversized pages of invasive questions in the American Community Survey of the U.S. Census Bureau cause citizens to justly worry about their privacy. But Congress precipitated the inquiries in the long form census in order to obtain exhaustive data to plan and fund big government programs. “Another Snitch System Institutionalized” - By Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA January 23, 2005) With the successful settlement of a lawsuit by an environmental group, the Residents Committee to Protect the Adirondacks, citizen informants can not efficiently report violations on the six-million acre Adirondack Forest Preserve. New York State’s trend toward environmental snitch systems is raising hackles here and there. “U. S. Supreme Court Sides With Privacy Rights—Thermal Imaging from Outside House is ruled an ‘Unreasonable Search’” - Carol W. LaGrasse, June 16, 2001 The United States Supreme Court handed Americans a victory for the Fourth Amendment on June 11 by ruling that it is unconstitutional for police to use thermal imaging from outside a house without a search warrant, but the legality of warrantless aerial surveillance was confirmed.

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