Article: Privacy at Risk: The New Government Surveillance and the Fourth Amendment

Privacy at Risk: The New Government Surveillance and the Fourth Amendment, by Christopher Slobogin. Chicago, October 2007. $37.50

This timely study of surveillance law begins by asking readers to imagine a police department using the latest technology to track a suspected gang: neighborhood cameras recording nightly from phone poles and buildings, helicopters flying by with night scopes and thermal imaging, cars and cell phones tracked by GPS, pedestrians searched at checkpoints, and satellites photographing from overhead. In the post-9/11 world, this scenario has become increasingly likely, while its possibilities for the deterrence of crime and terrorism, but also the ...

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