As the surveillance technology at the disposal of state and federal law enforcement continues to evolve in both sophistication and availability, inevitably there is going to be friction between the use of this technology and constitutional limitations. This tension is already being played out in trial courts across the country. It is an unfolding story well worth monitoring.
A current example is the on-going prosecution of an alleged bank robber named Christian Paetsch in federal court in Colorado, as related in an article in The New York Times, dated November 20, 2012.