Fourth Amendment
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House To Vote On Bill Blocking Federal Flock Data Access
The bill targets the federal pipeline, not the surveillance cameras already blooming locally.
DOJ Says Flock Camera Data Is Not Protected By Fourth Amendment
The government’s answer to omnipresent surveillance is that omnipresent surveillance is normal.
Federal Judge Calls License Plate Readers a Form of Mass Surveillance
The ruling found access to a month of license plate location data violated the Fourth Amendment.
Google Challenges Las Vegas Keyword Search Warrant
The warrant wants a crowd, not a suspect, and Google is asking whether that is constitutional.
Court Rules Your Phone Is Fair Game at the US Border
Your messages, medical records, and search history may now be part of the customs experience.
How Eight Car Photos Became a Test of Fourth Amendment Privacy
The ruling turns on scale: a handful of images is not yet a map of a person’s life.
Court: First Amendment Protects Recording Police in Public
The federal appeals courts have nearly finished agreeing on something most people assumed was settled a long time ago.
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Was Your Plate Searched on Flock? How to Check and Request Records
How to search Flock Safety audit logs, read a hit, and file a public records request for your license plate.
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Total Coverage, Optional Oversight
Surveillance companies do not promise their systems will never be abused. They promise the abuse will be caught, which is a different promise and a much smaller one.
Tower Dumps Are Unconstitutional, Federal Judge Rules
Tower dumps can place people inside homes, clinics, shelters, and polling sites, the Mississippi order warns.
Judge Denies Immunity to Texas Cops in Meme Arrest Case
The joke was that two rivals could never endorse each other. The felony charge landed the day after the election.
Flock Camera Error Gets Innocent Driver Boxed in by Police
Between a Los Angeles photo shoot and a Minnesota Kohl’s, a private camera network decided a car reviewer was a car thief.
