In most of Europe this does not (legally) exist and therefore will never be admissible in court.
> drones
Barely useful for catching criminals.
So no, LE, especially in Europe, does not have an incredible wealth of privacy intruding tools that can be applied willy nilly. But I live in a country where a cop needs to report removing their gun from their holster and every bullet is accounted for. It's a very different world from the US.
A law like this, in my country, would only be used in special circumstances for big time criminals, because the amount of work to actually apply it and the paperwork before that can actually happen is too big to apply in other cases. Maybe that's why I have less distrust towards laws like this, because I've seen how hard it is to actually apply them.
> geolocation tracking
Only real available ways are hardly useful and easy to avoid.
> sting rays
Really only useful if you already know something will happen or where (about) a suspect is.
> phone/internet/email/web history providers subpoenas
Take lots of time and are often barely useful for European LE due to the international character of the internet and many more reasons.
> doorbell cameras
Contrary to popular belief hardly any more useful than old school security cams and very often much less useful.
> face recognition
Mostly illegal for LE use in Europe: https://edpb.europa.eu/system/files/2022-05/edpb-guidelines_...
> national security mass surveillance
In most of Europe this does not (legally) exist and therefore will never be admissible in court.
> drones
Barely useful for catching criminals.
So no, LE, especially in Europe, does not have an incredible wealth of privacy intruding tools that can be applied willy nilly. But I live in a country where a cop needs to report removing their gun from their holster and every bullet is accounted for. It's a very different world from the US.
A law like this, in my country, would only be used in special circumstances for big time criminals, because the amount of work to actually apply it and the paperwork before that can actually happen is too big to apply in other cases. Maybe that's why I have less distrust towards laws like this, because I've seen how hard it is to actually apply them.