The Supreme Court just dropped a major bomb on government surveillance this morning.
In Chatrie v. United States, the Court ruled that accessing your cell phone location data is a Fourth Amendment search — even for short-term tracking. This completely blows up the ‘it’s just a few data points’ excuse that courts have been using for years.
Every court that previously signed off on warrantless Flock camera systems now has to go back and reconsider. Their entire legal reasoning just got shredded, because what they’ve been approving was always a 4th Amendment violation.
And it’s not just Flock. This ruling puts a massive spotlight on all kinds of automated surveillance tech — speed cameras, red light cameras, and every other system where private companies are tracking Americans and selling that data straight to the government.
Your privacy isn’t for sale, no matter how many governments and corporations are trying to split the profits
Nancy Guthrie was kidnapped from her home over 4 months ago. Seems like all of the Flock cameras in Tucson would have brought her back.
Unless Flock isn’t about solving crimes.
Elon Musk once jokingly offered to end World Hunger, asking how much it would cost as if it would be some incalculable number.
When the UN replied saying 6.6 Billion would be enough to immediately end Famine for the year he never responded, and a few months later bought Twitter for 44 Billion.
You struggle and suffer because people like him are allowed to exist, not because your neighbor is an immigrant.
@AncapWolfy69@DumbfukCat After the second Russo-Chechen war, the Chechen people have been under occupation of Russia. So, many Chechens, who have fled Russia are getting their revenge of Grozny by fighting for Ukraine. Although on the flip side some of the Russians fighting Ukraine are Chechen as well