Maybe not a warrant, and IANAL, but government agencies aren't necessarily at liberty to share information amongst themselves. For instance, IRS needs a court order to share returns with law enforcement (IRC Section 6103(i)(1)).
But yeah...this seems like maybe not a super great solution...
Yeah, I think one of the problems is that thin is a familiar and commonly reported spec for a display. If MTTF were reported
and it should be!
then I think the problem would sort itself out.