A federal judge called the plate camera network mass surveillance.
A federal judge in Tulsa ruled that a warrantless search of Flock's camera database was unconstitutional. Judge Sara Hill wrote the deputy had no reason to look up the car beyond its California plate. The drug evidence is suppressed, though the ruling binds no other court.
Why it mattersFlock cameras log where your car has been, in thousands of American towns. This is the first federal ruling that police need a warrant to search that log.
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