US SC: Police Use Of New Gadgets Raises Privacy Issues

8/29/2010

POLICE USE OF NEW GADGETS RAISES PRIVACY ISSUES

Local agencies say they follow law, not interested in intrusion

New technology is being used to give law enforcement agencies a leg up in fighting crime - advancements that have elsewhere raised tricky privacy issues that in some cases remain unresolved by the courts.

Greenville County sheriff's deputies are planning to spend $225,000 in federal money on a new thermal-imaging camera that would be installed on a helicopter to help search for suspects and missing people on the ground.

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