as to macklin -- mr. macklin. thank you, mr. chairman. ranking member scott, members of the committee, for inviting me to testify about the fourth amendment issues surrounding the domestic use of drones by law enforcement. of dronestutionality for domestic law enforcement purposes raises several important questions that are not easily answered by the supreme court's current fourth amendment jurisprudence. as you know, drones can be equipped with sophisticated cameras, thermal imagery devices, license plate readers, and laser radar systems. according to a recent paper by the congressional research service, drones will soon be able to operate with facial recognition or soft biometric recognition equipment that can recognize and track individuals based on outreach like height, age, gender, skin color. because of the advanced technology now available, comparing drones to a traditional airplane or helicopter is like comparing a frisk from a police officer to a modern x-ray machine that can see beneath one's clothes and graphically depict one's

macklin, and this is not a trick question. i thought mr. conyers point was very spot on.oes it matter to you constitutionally whether the street images in that particular case came from a street camera or from an unmanned aerial surveillance? rex constitutionally speaking? no, i don't think it matters. what matters is who is responsible for those cameras. but i believeken, one of the cameras was from the lord and taylor store. but let's assume that were put up by the city of boston. constitutionally speaking, it doesn't matter. it doesn't matter. >> then let me direct the question to mr. salaries. you stated in your testimony that the ua yes would be acceptable to you for "reasonable non-law-enforcement purposes by nonlaw enforcement -- wherefor privacy privacy will not be affected and where surveillance will not used for secondary law-enforcement purposes." ancestor macklin's comments, it is your position, that the fourth amendment applies only to law-enforcement agencies for law enforcement purposes. .> to the government, generally the fourth amendment applies to govern

macklin. >> sorry. thank you, mr. chairman. ranking member scott, members of the committee for inviting me to testify in the fourth amendment issue surrounding the domestic use of drugs by law enforcement officials. the constitutionality of drones from for some purposes raises several important questions that are not easily answered by the supreme court's jurisprudence. as you know, drones are equipped with sophisticated cameras, license plate readers and laser radar systems. according to recent paper by congressional research service, drones will soon be able to operate with facial recognition or soft biometric recognition equipment to recognize and track individuals is an attribute such as height, age, gender, skin color. .. i agree with our previous speaker that thecourt's 1980 rulings do not control the use of drone capable of capturing much more detail unavailable to human eye. furthermore, it's important to recognize that even among justices of the current court, that the definition of what constitutes a search and what t

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