zlacker

>Eh, if a cop sat at a Dunkin Donuts and wrote down every license plate they saw that wouldn't require a warrant

I would say that there is an appreciable qualitative difference between a man using his eyeballs and a piece of paper to write down license plate numbers and a technologically sophisticated network of computerized surveillance apparatus installed over a geographically large area being used to track an individual.

Call me old-fashioned I guess