In terms of raw data, I can acknowledge your clarification of what constitutes sensory data as being not inherently prohibitive from being viewed. It is still unsettling with the implications it can result in though, but the issue becomes where these senses end and memory begin.
I tend to view a memory as able to just consist of one sense. They can contain more, but one is probably enough. Like, if a person is deaf and blind and paralyzed and only able to taste, they can still have memories of how things taste. Each bit of sensation is ultimately unique to that person, and subject to misremembering as the way our brain encodes data can be faulty at times. This is part of why I say that sensory information retrieved from their mind has potential to be false (and if a subject knows they are guilty, they will take steps to ensure this information is false if we run with the notion that mind scans are a common enough thing in this world. Crime generally adapts much quicker than the governing bodies that try to stop it.)
So, if there is a distinct separation from memory and sensory input, and if the need is great enough, I could agree to limited searching. But I question where the line would ultimately be drawn as it is a hair's breadth from sensory input to the complete repository of their thoughts and motives and how they think. We could also get into senseory data depicting a crime, with justifiable motivation not being looked at, but that is neither here nor there.
It still reeks of privacy invading, and if the practice is easy enough, too easily applied to any instance of criminal activity which would, as I suggested, lead to Orwellian dystopias and general unhappiness amongst the populace.
Yeah, it's a tricky matter. The details of the execution kind of escape me because I'm tired and this is hard to puzzle out, but I'm positive it comes down to the point where you draw the line.
From: Sceptilesolar | #366
I believe it was already established no such crime exists, and we never charged her with that in the first place.
Not in Sayaburg laws, but it's a clear crime against everybody else's basic rights. If you rape someone outside the jurisdiction of all states, it's still a rape. Same thing here.
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