[HamiltonJay]

Sorry fella, you have no expectation of privacy to the AIR around your car. Whether it be a dog, or odor sensing device... Odors eminating from a vehicle, no MATTER HOW STRONG OR WEAK are not owned by the owner of the vehicle nor can any expectation of privacy related to them be expected.

XRAY required the GENERATION of XRAYS to detect them... or an exterior act... sniffing the air, whether by human, or dog, or electronic device does not.

Court made the right call.

[NJ_gent]

"Sorry fella, you have no expectation of privacy to the AIR around your car. Whether it be a dog, or odor sensing device... Odors eminating from a vehicle, no MATTER HOW STRONG OR WEAK are not owned by the owner of the vehicle nor can any expectation of privacy related to them be expected."

And the NSA can read what's on your computer screen without being inside your house using the electromagnetic interference patterns generated by your monitor. (See: TEMPEST) Now, does the NSA/CIA/FBI/local police have the right to park outside your house and use infrared scanning equipment to watch your every move, CIA laser technology to monitor everything that's said inside your home, and TEMPEST technology to record everything you do with your television or computer?

Don't answer with what they would or wouldn't do - the question is do they have the right to do those things?

[plain talk]

dittos. Good post. Another sane person at Free Republic.