by John Rubino, Dollar Collapse:

We periodically remind our American readers that by simply going about their daily lives, they’re likely committing multiple crimes. As we pointed out last month, for instance, you could be imprisoned for walking your dog on federal property without a leash, or with too long a leash. Indeed, as attorney Harvey Silvergate has pointed out, the average American likely commits several felonies each day, often without knowing it.

At the same time, the surveillance infrastructure created to detect and prosecute these crimes has greatly expanded. Consider the so-called “geofence warrant,” in which a law enforcement agency is granted access by a court to location data from every mobile device connected to a cellphone network or to the internet in a particular area within a specific time range. It’s essentially a warrant in reverse, with hundreds or even thousands of innocent people thrown into a surveillance dragnet.