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With proper checks and balances in a civilian government, sure. The problem is when private companies help police departments do a runaround constitutional prot
by throwup238 2y ago
With proper checks and balances in a civilian government, sure. The problem is when private companies help police departments do a runaround constitutional protections. Users have no sovereignty over their data (so to speak).
- tptacek 2y agoTo which Constitutional protections are you referring?
- lupire 2y agoThe 4th Amendment
- tptacek 2y agoWhat does the 4th Amendment have to say about this? The guiding philosophy at the time 4A was framed is "the public is entitled to every man's evidence".
- msrenee 2y agoThey're towing cars. You think they bring them back 30 minutes later and leave a friendly note? Unreasonable search and seizure. I'd say the seizure of property worth tens of thousands of dollars as evidence for a crime the owner was not involved in is pretty unreasonable.
- tptacek 2y agoThey're towing cars pursuant to warrants issued when the owners of those cars can't be identified and the cars contain evidence of homicides. "Reasonable" search and seizure is almost literally "whatever a judge decides".
- thfuran 2y agoProbably the fourth amendment.