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Generally, no.As with most things in life, there are exceptions to the general rule.The key word here is “warrant”, which is a court order procured by a prosecuting authority working on behalf of the government (be it municipal, county, state, or federal, or the Crown) who then serves that warrant via the police or local sheriff's office.There are of course some exceptions to every general rule, but these typically will not apply to the everyday low level drug dealer. Especially when it comes to real-time surveillance (wiretaps and keystroke recorders or EM/WiFi cracking and data stream recording).Real-time wiretapping is relatively more expensive and has a bit of a judicial minefield that must be correctly handled which a skilled defense attorney (not your bog-standard public pretender-defender) will pick apart like a fat guy over a buffet service.Certain persons suspected of engaging in terrorist activities, or in high-level financial or multi-million dollar drug trafficking or racketeering might find themselves worthy of be issued a wiretap order by a FISA court order.Since the government wouldn't want you to, you know, suddenly stop being a dumbass and stop doing whatever it was that put you on their radar, you're likely not going to know when you've been, or are being wiretapped.Yet even those high-end FISA ordered wiretaps still function with a fixed scope and parameters to follow, the exception being that it's probably already been running anywhere from six months to a year before the Feds will come goon-swarming through your door after a CI buy at 2am or while you're balls deep in some thot, or entertaining some Grindr trick whose salad you wanted to toss while he was “stopping in for some ice cream”.Generally anything that involves the use of assistive technology or bugging (antennae, cameras, or other devices placed on the suspect's property or positioned adjacent to and surveiling their property) which is able to collect sensory data which exceeds the normal values and ranges of human senses requires a warrant.This includes the guys with the RF detector vans and the parabolic sound collector arrays and thermal imaging sensors: the average guy on the street is not an X-Men or an Avenger's member with mutant superpowers.Nor is he standing up against your door or walls listening to you with a tumbler glass to his ears while you tweak-repair your Rumba vacuum robot from the circuit boards on up.For the sixth time this month.(But we do know it has less to do with improving its efficiency than it has to do with possibly doing some carpet mining for some ice particles, amirite?)For those of us who aren’t inside traders, operating major drug cartels, or trafficking in humans, Donald J. Trump, or participants in similarly large scale bad shit that's worth the federal or your state resources to run a year+ active surveillance case on you, but more likely a low level dealer who's shit only went sidewise because you got a speeding ticket or were caught up in a fight over something unrelated to your shady trading…Welcome to the 95% of us who caught cases for being dumbasses.This has less to do with what warrants or even probable cause/reasonable suspicion tests as it does with that “plain view" or the plain sense doctrine.Although how this is applied is a common sense thing: if you are in the habit of leaving your trade on a table with curtains or blinds open on your ground floor apartment that is at eye level to wandering humans who snap a photo of “Mount Snow" and pass it along to the cops… or doing any “business" in public areas known to have a heavy field of overlapping surveillance systems:Let's just say that any Big Box store is a very bad idea to move your stuff…I used to date a dealer some years ago who was a very fun to fuck in such locales as the 35th floor of a NYC hotel with the curtains open for all to see, and what neither of us knew was that he was under surveillance at that point.Hopefully whoever was watching us for that show enjoyed the free live porn expo. He was a relatively smarter guy (double masters student, both in STEM fields, although it's arguable as to how smart he really was in the ways he ultimately depleted his trust fund).He got himself nailed after a year of being watched by the DEA to no great effect. It was a controlled buy from some female he only ever met once through a mutual connect that caught him his first and hopefully only federal case (the end of his trust fund went toward a half million dollar defense that turned a potential 150 month sentence into a three years federal probation, concurrently served in satisfaction of the state cases he had on adjacent charges, plus the time already served in pre-trial detention).But the day he got raided, a friend and I were going to buy a key each along with a few litters of GBL …And that's one day that we had to thank the MTA for running a shit-show of a subway schedule:Had we arrived a few hours earlier we would have gotten rolled up in that mess! And being that my friend (who had a record already) and I were far from having access to any $1000/hr attorneys on retainer, we probably would both still be staring at walls to this day.But if you stay in this business for any length of time and you partake a little of your own product - it eventually becomes more than a little, and then you start making sloppy moves toward the end, and boy, do I know how that can go.More likely, you or your associates may happen to be dealing out of your rented U-Haul van in the parking lot of a Home Depot and the store manager decides to call the cops on the suspicious activity he detected on his security camera, you might be getting a visit sometime down the road when you're not expecting it from some authority, if a judge or magistrate decides that what she saw on that video feed offers probable cause that a crime has been committed.And they will likely have a warrant scoped to collect up any tech in your possession to get bagged and tagged and sealed until a certified digital forensics investigator is authorized to hook it up to an EnCase terminal, a Cellebrite scanner, or an Autopsy (forensics case management software) as the first of many such software to pull out each possible useful thing you might have — even stuff you thought you'd lose by formatting your data drives and overwriting them — Locard's exchange principle will always leave some digital shit behind like the dingleberry of great justice.(Bitlocker and encryption of key files and folders can delay or even deny access here).But coming back to the plain sensory doctrine:You get stopped for some dumb shit (let's assume that you have no record and the cops have no other reason to fuck with you outside of your skin tone, your glassy-eyed, sweaty shiny appearance or the crap that's dangling from your 1997 Subaru Impreza during the witching hours from 11pm to 5am), and because you are just that sort of person who is always pressing their good luck, you've left some things in plain view of the policeman who is questioning you about your early morning driving habits…… Along with your mobile phone which is clearly smashed on and until very recently had been in the midst of a very heated discussion with a customer…… There's a good chance that the officer may become very interested in what was on your phone.At this point, assuming that between whatever it was in your car that the cop noticed has bumped this from being a Terry stop into a full-on evidence fishing expedition with you being ordered to:“…get out of the car and stand behind the trunk with your hands on the trunk lid"It's now a search of the environs based on reasonable suspicion… and of course, a pat-down of your person, because, you know, that meth pipe in your back pocket just might be a weapon.The cockring in the other pocket? Well, that was fun watching as he instinctively drops it back into the trunk of the car, despite being insulated by his exam gloves after I explained what it was and it's functionality.A bright bulb of a state trooper, or just maybe he was just morbidly interested in what I do on my daily gay agenda (mostly: study and accumulate debt and look for work, with a rare splash of fun with guys I know).I won't even get into his thoughts about the duffle bag full of leather and vinyl BDSM gear I kept for use with a few of my “boys” (well, some of them were as old or older than me … LOL) that he felt the need to drag out for all of the gathered LEOs to see.At the end of the day, your choices soon narrow down to keeping your mouth shut beyond answering for your name and politely reminding the officer that you wish to exercise your right to speak with an attorney, and that you respectfully do not consent to any searches of your property…If asked: there's even odds that if a cop is asking to search something, then he's not 100% sure he has grounds or scope for a warrantless search …(Yet.)Even odds, because with the right choice of his words with his supervisor and the wrong words or actions from you, the search can escalate to a lawful non-consenting search, pending delivery and receipt of a duly authorized warrant.This also assumes that your average patrolman is well read up on his search and seizure procedures, and knows the limits of admissibility for evidence gathered from searches.No disrespect intended towards blue, but most cops get in the door with just a high school diploma. Many departments do not have much more than a basic college degree requirement for elevation to Sergeant much less a Master's in criminal justice or forensics.And they're still quite a few officers out there who operate more on the basis of badges, bullets, and balls rather than they do by using their keenly developed and thoughtful analytical discretion.Especially the younger rooks who have yet to really field how the criminal mind works.Therefore the average subject of a Terry stop is going to be up against someone who for lack of better training is going to be operating off of a script period and that script is heavily weighted in favor of issuing paperwork and summonses and has more to do with revenue generation than it does with actual law enforcement.If it so happens that on one of these Terry stops that someone is dumb enough to leave something in plain view, or was smoking something that left a plain smell… you probably get the idea where I'm going with this.At this point, he's likely already made whatever decisions or requested application for a warrant, but if he can get you to fess up before all that chatter back and forth to an assistant DA (some unlucky but well meaning lad a few years or less out of law school) and a judge who is used to early wake-ups and has a templated warrant (usually reserved for the many DUI cases and a handful of DV and other early AM stupidity that happens), you've made his job that much easier, and guess what?Anything that gets scrounged off the floorboards of your car, or worse, added to your car or baggage from the back of his police cruiser(because Officer Grumpowitz wants to get off this shit stick graveyard shift, and maybe… he just can't be arsed to deal with shit like evidentiary procedure when a bag of dope or other contraband copped from another case that never made it to the evidence locker is dropped into your stuff…… And that might be all the basis he needs for calling in a warrant).And because you consented to that search, it's very admissible as evidence.Consent does make it easier for him, as when you buy the lie he's spinning about how things will go that much easier if only you cooperate on this one chance he is offering to you:Bullshit.Only a district attorney or prosecuting attorney can make offers like that… Not the JD grad whose lack of seniority as an ADA means he will get the call from the sheriff or the trooper station to put your case on the docket.And that supervising DA is either in bed sleeping off his six-bourbon dinner in the den after arguing with his dumpy pantsuited corporate tax attorney wife, or he's been up doing lines of primo Columbian coke off the backs of strippers. A troubled man with his own demons who might see some common ground, or hate you all the more as the shadow of things to come in his life if he doesn't dial back his shit a few notches.And since you've been dealing only in meth, GBL, special K, and some e-pills but not coke (that's a rich man's stimulant, if you want the real stuff that hasn't stepped on more the floor of bathroom in a dive bar)… he is most certainly not on your client list.Or worse, she is a well-disciplined warrior prosecutor looking at a run for county judge later next year, with a long, twenty year unbroken string of convictions who will be getting up for her Crossfit three mile mud run in a few hours to then deal with your sorry ass after you've been booked into County jail.You get her, you're basically done like dinner, because not only is she teetotal, but after having lost her son in his battle with heroin addiction, she's out to fight the drug war with a vengeance.In short, that cop who spotted the bag of ice on the floor of that busted Subaru of yours is not the guy with the power to negotiate a plea deal. If he's talking that sort of talk, you've likely already got two or three additional police cruisers and maybe even a K9 that have pulled up on you like sharks on chummed water.Which is not to say that acting calm, collected, and peacefully won't help: but like the saying goes: Loose lips sink ships.I'll say this next part not from the perspective of an ex-dealer trying to teach people how to evade surveillance, but rather as a cyber security measure for protecting any key information that needs to be kept confidential:Set a passphrase with at least 12–16 alphanumeric+symbols (not a pin, not a swipe pattern, and definitely not a fingerprint or FaceID) with a one minute lockscreen along with ensuring that your OS encrypts your data on lock.Also, use a secured, encrypted messenger client such as Threema (Swiss based, they are super awesome about privacy and is worth a few $), Wickr or Signal Messenger.Telegram is an option, if you avoid the groups or remember that the more people you beam messages to in a group, the greater are the chances for data leakage. Personally, I don't use it.Avoid WeChat (Chinese data mine) and anything owned by Facebook (WhatsApp and FB Messenger) as well as basic SMS/MMS which is logged and kept by Big Telecoms and is easily subpoenaed.iMessage (Apple) is only secured when both users are using Apple devices -and- the message stream never passes on or through a non-Apple endpoint (e.g. a group chat with someone using an Android phone will see the messages in the clear).Other exceptions to the warrant rule may include special parole or probation conditions. Being on paper is an added layer of hell in that for the privilege of not being locked up you get to be supervised by someone who may have a vested interest in what's on your phone and in that case… sorry, out of luck.