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by throwawayway9 2170 days ago
Warrants are extremely easy to get, basically rubber stamped. It's so bad that LE will put in things they know are outright unconstitutional, knowing the magistrate won't really read it or care about citizen's rights.
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Even an extremely easy to get warrant takes both time and effort, by multiple people, to get. It's incomparable to an automatic feed to all the Ring cameras in a neighbourhood.

It's the difference between surveillance and mass surveillance. The latter is the bigger problem and warrants will solve it.

>Even an extremely easy to get warrant takes both time and effort,

And most importantly a paper trail that can be picked apart in court.