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Fair, but let's be realistic about the fact that it's also easy for cops to get cellphone tower and location data if they feel like doing correlations. If they
by anigbrowl 1y ago
Fair, but let's be realistic about the fact that it's also easy for cops to get cellphone tower and location data if they feel like doing correlations. If they tailor their request to the date and area around a protest this would be sufficiently 'narrowly tailored' for many judges to just give them a warrant.
- tptacek 1y agoThis argument very nearly kept Flock cameras alive in my muni, with the logic being that ALPRs weren't doing anything phones weren't already doing vis a vis privacy.
- y0eswddl 1y agoThe process for getting access to cell phone data is much more difficult than the process of logging into a flock system
- anigbrowl 1y agoHence my mention of the need to tailor their request. Obviously they would need to assert some sort of criminal activity connected with the protest to get a warrant, but it's not as if cops are unfamiliar with amplifying or even provoking such, and exaggerating the level of danger in their warrant application. This might seem like a cynical take, but you can see stories almost weekly of border patrol officials admitting to lying about claims of criminality; here are two recent examples: https://abcnews.go.com/US/border-patrol-commander-admitted-lied-tear-gas-incident/story?id=127283392 https://abcnews.go.com/US/border-patrol-commander-admitted-l... https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5616287-charges-dropped-border-patrol-shooting/ https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5616287-charges-dro...