Capital de TokensA license plate revealed an entire month of movements
Watch on YouTube A California license plate was enough for an officer to look up where a car had traveled over the past month. The driver did not yet know she would have to explain her trip. The database was already telling her story. On October 1, a federal judge in Oklahoma ruled that the search violat
A California license plate was enough for an officer to look up where a car had traveled over the past month. The driver did not yet know she would have to explain her trip. The database was already telling her story. On October 1, a federal judge in Oklahoma ruled that the search violated the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The officer had searched for Melisa Kyle’s license plate in automatic plate reader systems, including Flock, without a warrant and with no initial reason other than seeing a California plate. He obtained more than fifty records of the vehicle’s location across several states. He then stopped her, questioned her about her route, and searched the car. He found about forty-one kilograms of methamphetamine.
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