> In 1983, the Supreme Court held unanimously that ‘a person travelling in an automobile on public thoroughfares has no reasonable expectation of privacy in his movements from one place to another’. And in January of 2026, a federal judge in Virginia ruled in a challenge by two civil rights activists against Flock specifically that: ‘An individual scan of a license plate, a vehicle identifier that generally must be displayed under state law, does not invade any privacy interests’.
And a week ago, a federal court in Oklahoma threw out the evidence after a cop with no warrant checked a month of Flock's travel history on a car, used that as grounds for suspicion, searched the car and found drugs.
And a week ago, a federal court in Oklahoma threw out the evidence after a cop with no warrant checked a month of Flock's travel history on a car, used that as grounds for suspicion, searched the car and found drugs.
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