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The Supreme Court Just Lit a Fuse Under Flock's License Plate Camera Empire

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/supreme-court-just-lit-fuse-130900307.html
34•bilsbie•1h ago

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josefritzishere•25m ago
It is self-evident that a very narrow examination of a very narrow data set is different than the 24/7 unlimited surveillance of everything. The law should support this basic proposition no matter where they decide the dividing line is. Flock is on the wrong side of an open air prison. I hope they lose.
mannanj•14m ago
Here's a reminder that a Montana-LLC registered car is a legitimate privacy-preserving use case and not the tax-evasion that Straw Manners and Ad Hominem attackers make appear to be.

You can still pay your use tax and be a good citizen, and in fact, its probably a better demonstration of your duties as a citizen to protect the right to privacy and say to your local governments that have a history of abusing and selling vehicle registration data to 3rd parties that you do not tolerate that.

Happy to share more, the sites for Montana registration can be shady but the dirt legal one is great.

afavour•4m ago
> Here's a reminder that a Montana-LLC registered car is a legitimate privacy-preserving use case and not the tax-evasion that Straw Manners and Ad Hominem attackers make appear to be.

I mean, it’s both, right? You’re definitely getting a tax advantage compared to a lot of areas of the country. And how is insurance going to work?

cliglot•1m ago
Interestingly I was watching a body cam where an off duty cop road raged punched a driver.

During the investigation the investigating officer had become worried that the assailant would use police resources to further track and harass him.

Luckily the guy was driving a company vehicle that did not track to his address.

twoodfin•9m ago
To its credit, the article covers all the reasons why the Chatrie decision won’t be determinative for this case.

But the headline and narrative paint a way too optimistic (if you’re anti-Flock) picture of Chatrie’s impact.

In particular the search identified by Chatrie (Google’s database of expected-private location records, including movement in the home and other private spaces) has almost no analog in third-party-owned recordings of public movement.

text0404•2m ago
But Chatrie found that the geofence was unconstitutional because of the dragnet, not because it picked up people in private spaces:

> The Court held that police conducted a Fourth Amendment search when they obtained Chatrie's location data, because, as the opinion put it, "an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in his cell-phone location information."

> Just as important as the holding is the reasoning: the Court rejected the government's fallback argument that the search was fine because it only pulled a narrow, time-limited slice of a much larger dataset. Once the Fourth Amendment applies, the majority reasoned, it doesn't matter how small a bite investigators took out of an all-encompassing database.

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