The DOJ told the Fifth Circuit this month that you have no expectation of privacy on a public road, because drivers already expect to be watched. That is the government’s legal theory for Flock, and the FBI is already using the data.
In San Jose, 474 cameras took over 360 million photos in 2024. About a quarter of one percent triggered a hotlist alert. Everyone else was photographed anyway.
Mike Johnson has now promised a House vote on a bill that would cut every federal agency off from this data. The vote comes after the election, and the bill leaves locally funded cameras untouched.
https://reclaimthenet.org/house-vote-blocking-federal-flock-data-access
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