Reminder: Flock is just one example. Palantir is another. Digital ID is another.
We need to fight the entire surveillance industrial complex. And we need to fight as hard as we can.
The Supreme Court may take down Flock Cameras and the entire surveillance state being built because it violates the 4th Amendment
The Supreme Court just issued a major ruling that strengthens the Fourth Amendment protections that Flock has been exploiting
“On the heels of the recent Supreme Court ruling on geofencing and how that violates the Fourth Amendment, a US district judge has now ruled that tower dump warrants also violates the Fourth Amendment. As a reminder, the Supreme Court ruled that your location data is protected by the Fourth Amendment.
That means the police cannot just pull your phone information via GPS without a warrant because it's considered a search, citing Carpenter v. United States
This Mississippi judge is essentially calling out police for using a loophole to still grab similar data from people and is trying to close it by saying that these tower dump warrants are too general because it still grabs your location data, which is therefore subject to probable cause and more specific warrants because it's considered a search which is protected by the Fourth Amendment.
The Supreme Court's ruling could potentially be setting Flock up for violating the same thing because Flock had previously leaned on Carpenter v. United States to claim that they are constitutionally protected and allowed to surveil and store people's data the way that they do.
But that was before the Supreme Court's recent ruling.”
“As much as there seems to be an uptick in surveillance systems and the digital panopticon being built around us, it also seems like there is a growing opposition towards all of this, and it seems to be quite effective”
Flock even on their own website sites Carpenter v. United States as justification to why they are constitutionally allowed to operate and collected their digital data
But now the Supreme Court is expanding digital data protection rights
Ban Flock Cameras from America
Flock is panicking... the fact that they want to reduce data retention to 7 days is a HUGE tell.
They think they are negotiating with us... this isn't a negotiation.