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In reply to the discussion: If possible, would you support a brain scan warrant? [View all]MindPilot
(12,693 posts)But an interesting question to be sure, and a great point for discussion.
Leaving your fingerprints on a doorknob or footprints in the mud are passive acts. But say for example I have to submit to a blood test because I'm a DUI suspect. The results of that test are admissible only because by the act of accepting a driver's license--in exchange for permission to drive--I have waived my 5th rights in this particular situation.
Therefore having to sit in a chair, likely at the police station, certainly seems like something you are being compelled to do. No doubt if this ever became available, law enforcement would love it, and no doubt being at certain events or in certain places would constitute your permission to have your brain scanned, just as you now waive your Fourth Amendment rights by the act of entering an airport.
I'm not a lawyer; my entire legal education consists of two semesters of business law and a season of Ally McBeal.
That said, the idea scares the hell out of me; I'm such an old-school libertarian that I find having to put a license plate on my car a bit intrusive.