You have an expectation of privacy in location data that reveals your movements in the physical world, and even short-term surveillance of these movements is a search subject to the Fourth Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today in Chatrie v. United States. The case involved geofence warrants...
I’m really curious as to whether this will impact the build out of the surveillance state, particularly in regards to Flock and other ALPRs. Or is a phone’s location history somehow sacrosanct while an image on a camera is not?
Calling Flock “ALPR” is dangerously misleading. They track faces, phones, wireless headphones, smartwatches, clothing/outfits, distinctive scrapes and dents on cars, and more.
It’s how it’s marketed to the public, though I do not disagree.
IDK if it will directly impact Flocks - although I don’t know it won’t. But at the very least, it helps build momentum. There is a national level, bipartisan bill to heavily restrict ALPR now. The more legal momentum there is vs related issues like geofence requests, the easier it is for that to pass. Also a lot of municipalities have already banned ALPRs locally, so that also helps build momentum.
I fucking hate ALPRs.
More of us doing the stronger we all are!! The more of us there are the stronger we are!! Unity, coordination, and logistics!!
Some flock were installed recently on my preferred route to work, so I changed my route a street over. Ive read one too many stories of people wrongly arrested just because they were shown to be in the area. I hope this somehow limits all this surveillance of normal everyday people, but I won’t hold my breath.