Tuesday, June 30, 2026

The Fourth vs. Flock?

 Yesterday's SCOTUS ruling on "geofencing" being a 4th Amendment violation (in the case of criminal suspicion) brings up another possibility:  that "Flock" is also subject to 4th Amendment restrictions.

As the Ticker opines:

 ...[Another decision] that is likely to have wide-ranging impact in the world of ever-increasing surveillance, particularly the "Flock" nonsense as it both exists now and is expanding rapidly with scanners that profile on Bluetooth and WiFi MAC (and similar) addresses tying people to locations beyond that of license plates.

This decision in fact goes to exactly that "beyond" question in that it applies to "geofence" requests made to providers that are not governments, in this case Google.

The government did not seek a warrant and doesn't on a routine basis when it uses FLOCK and similar data today.  This decision ends that when the inquiry is one of criminal culpability beyond something like a license plate that is otherwise subject to direct casual, personal observation....

It is not likely that Flock's observations of license plates is per se a violation.  However, when the cops are seeking a criminal suspect and utilize Flock's videos to determine criminal culpability --that is, whether Suspect A was "at the scene" or not--it may, indeed, be a violation of the Fourth. 

4 comments:

Anonymous said...


Israel is using Geo fencing and buying lots of airline tickets for our pastors to go to the holy land so they can indoctrinate them
(Unfortunately, it’s working)

And our 80 billion in taxes that go to Israel to pay for their war is indirectly paying for it

Listen to this most excellent Tucker interview!!!!

Buying Pastors & Stalking Churchgoers: Israel’s Longtime Heist on the Christian Church Exposed

https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-nathanapffel-061926

Turns out the Israeli government is targeting American churches to indoctrinate unsuspecting Christians. Nathan Apffel, director of “The Religion Business” explains.

Nathan Apffel is an investigative documentary filmmaker best known for creating the docuseries The Religion Business, which examines financial fraud and abuse within American religious institutions while calling for the institutions to realign with the ethos of Christ.

Anonymous said...

Nathan Apffel Supplies, great arguments, and scriptures to blow up Christian Zionism

Anonymous said...

US Air Force Engineer Charged With Sawing Down Flock Surveillance Cameras Receives Thousands of Dollars from Supporters Across the Country

"There has been community support for me that I humbly welcome."


https://futurism.com/future-society/air-force-engineer-flock-surveillance-support-legal-gofundme

Hundreds of freedom lovers are rallying behind a US Air Force engineer accused of chopping down over a dozen AI-integrated surveillance cameras last year.

According to local channel WAVY, a Virginia-based Air Force engineer and mechanic Jeffrey Sovern is facing 13 counts of destruction of property, as well as six counts of both petit larceny and possession of burglary tools related to the destruction of Flock license plate cameras.


People have donated more than 20k so far to Jeff’s legal defense fund
https://www.gofundme.com/f/jeff-sovern-


An open-source project mapping license plate readers.

https://deflock.org/



Anonymous said...

Instead of Block Parties have Flock Partys!

Take back your Neighborhood!


https://xenophilicthereturn.blogspot.com/2026/07/we-need-some-kind-of-handy-kit-i-think.html