Thanks for the backhanded vote of confidence.

if it has social backing i’m confident that your profession will produce some appropriate casuistical argument which validates it. you always do. i believe in induction

The Fourth Amendment precedents on what constitutes a search or seizure for Fourth Amendment purposes in high technology areas is a mixed bag. A wiretap, for example, has pretty universally been held to constitute a search, while an observation through an open window, even if it uses a telescope to get a better view than would be possible with the naked eye, has not.

Collecting DNA for use as evidence against someone who has been validly arrested with probable cause has generally been upheld, but there are few cases where this DNA has been used to create probable cause to believe that someone who has never been validly arrested.