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The UK has always felt it proper to invade individuals' privacy. TV detector vans date from 1952: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_detector_van and they've recently entered the digital age: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/05/bbc-to-deploy-det...

This type of casual invasion of privacy at least (nominally) requires a warrant in the US.

I'm constantly amazed that so many British people believe the fiction that BBC detector vans are able to detect license violations.

I'm not British, and even if they're fake (why do you believe that?), they've still been purporting to invade privacy for over half a century.