What is the legal and practical status of drones, facial recognition, fingerprinting, robots, and apps for crimefighting?
What will be an ideal response?
First, many technology tools (including the use of robots and drones, which do not fall under the IT category) are so new that the courts have not had time to rule on their constitutionality. Furthermore, in some jurisdictions different state and federal courts have handed down conflicting rulings. This means that police are often experimenting with little or no guidance from the courts about the constitutionality of their actions. In the near future, many of these constitutional questions (many of which will involve citizens’ right to privacy) will be taken up by lower courts and eventually reach the U.S. Supreme Court. Meanwhile, police leadership is free to test different technologies that appear to be the most useful, cost-effective.
Another touchy technology issue concerns the matter of legitimacy in the eyes of the communities as they regard privacy issues. Even within a given city or county, people in different neighborhoods or regions may differ in their opinions about how to balance privacy concerns and crime-fighting.
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