Lawsuit: City cameras make it impossible to drive anywhere without being #tracked

Police use of automated license-plate reader cameras is being challenged in a lawsuit alleging that the #cameras enable #warrantless #surveillance in violation of the #FourthAmendment.
#privacy #alpr

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/lawsuit-city-cameras-make-it-impossible-to-drive-anywhere-without-being-tracked/

#Lawsuit Argues #Warrantless Use of #Flock #SurveillanceCameras Is #Unconstitutional
"Functionally impossible for people to drive anywhere without having their movements tracked, photographed, and stored in an #AI-assisted database that enables the warrantless surveillance of their every move. This #civilrights lawsuit seeks to end this dragnet #surveillance program"
https://www.404media.co/lawsuit-argues-warrantless-use-of-flock-surveillance-cameras-is-unconstitutional/
Flock sells networks of automated #licenseplate readers
Are they unconstitutional under #FourthAmendment?

@psuPete Recommends Weekly highlights on #cybersecurity issues August 4, 2024 - https://llrx.com/2024/08/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-august-3-2024/ Four highlights for this week - How 2 Check Whether You’re #Chatting with a Real Person or #AI; Here is another reason why you should never #click on #ads to #download #software; New Federal Ruling Prohibits #Warrantless #Phone Searches by #Border Agents; About #Chrome’s “These extensions may soon no longer be supported” message. #privacy #cybersecurity #legalresearch #LLRX #NIST #CrowdStrike

Top #FBI Official Urges Agents to Use #Warrantless #Wiretaps on US Soil

An internal email from FBI deputy director Paul Abbate, obtained by WIRED, tells employees to search for “US persons” in a controversial #spy program's database that investigators have repeatedly misused.
#privacy #surveillance

https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-section-702-us-person-queries-email/

„In 2021 alone, the #FBI reported conducting up to 3.4 million #warrantless searches of #Section702 data using Americans’ identifiers. Given this history of abuse, it is difficult to understand how #Congress could decide to expand the government’s power under Section 702 rather than rein it in.“

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/us-senate-and-biden-administration-shamefully-renew-and-expand-fisa-section-702-0

House votes to reapprove law allowing #warrantless #surveillance of US citizens

#Fisa allows for monitoring of foreign communications, as well as collection of citizens’ messages and calls

Nick Robins-Early
Fri 12 Apr 2024

"The law, which gives the government expansive powers to view emails, calls and texts, has long been divisive and resulted in allegations from #CivilLiberties groups that it violates privacy rights. House Republicans were split in the lead-up to vote over whether to reauthorize #Section702, the most contentious aspect of the bill...

"Section 702 allows for government agencies such as the National Security Administration to collect data and monitor the communications of foreign citizens outside of US territory without the need for a warrant, with authorities touting it as a key tool in targeting cybercrime, international drug trafficking and terrorist plots. Since the collection of foreign data can also gather communications between people abroad and those in the US, however, the result of section 702 is that federal law enforcement can also monitor American citizens’ communications.

"Section 702 has faced opposition before, but it became especially fraught in the past year after court documents revealed that the FBI had improperly used it almost 300,000 times – targeting #RacialJustice #protesters, January 6 suspects and others...

"Section 702 dates back to the #GeorgeWBush administration, which secretly ran warrantless wiretapping and surveillance programs in the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks. In 2008, Congress passed section 702 as part of the Fisa Amendments Act and put foreign surveillance under more formal government oversight. Lawmakers have renewed the law twice since, including in 2018 when they rejected an amendment that would have required authorities to get warrants for US citizens’ data."

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/12/fisa-surveillance-act-reauthorized

#Trump is tightening his stranglehold on the congressional #GOP’s policy agenda as he reshapes Republican lawmakers’ party orthodoxy on #NationalSecurity & #social issues.
Trump’s sway was on full display Wed as the #House tried to take up a #warrantless #government #surveillance bill intended to unite the party. Then, hrs after Trump pushed to “kill” the #Foreign #Intelligence Surveillance Act reauthorization, 19 #HouseRepublicans did just that.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/11/trump-tightens-stranglehold-on-congressional-gop-00151629