Your car's past, a click away #Shorts

One camera sees a car pass by. A network of cameras can reconstruct an entire month.

In Oklahoma, an officer searched for Melisa Kyle’s license plate without a warrant and with no initial suspicion beyond the fact that it was from California. The system gathered more than fifty location records across several states.

Federal Judge Sara Hill concluded that the search violated the Fourth Amendment. The distinction matters: each capture shows a moment; connecting them reveals a route. And when looking up that route takes just a few seconds, the question is no longer only where the car was, but who can look up that past and for what reason.

Full episode: https://youtu.be/Q6wWebb5-nc

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