FCC: Warrantless Searches

You may not know it, but if you have a wireless router, a cordless phone, remote car-door opener, baby monitor or cellphone in your house, the FCC claims the right to enter your home without a warrant at any time of the day or night in order to inspect it.

“Anything using RF energy — we have the right to inspect it to make sure it is not causing interference,” says FCC spokesman David Fiske. That includes devices like Wi-Fi routers that use unlicensed spectrum, Fiske says.

So lets take a law written in 1934 intended to allow the FCC to regulate unlicensed radio sets and use it for a power grab in the now when almost every household has something that emits radio transmissions: wi fi, cellular telephones. Somebody needs to put these guys on a leash.

It's about time to push the reset button.

Amen.

H/T to the Freeholder.