picardo
Joined 15 years ago
Joined 15 years ago
> [t]he Supreme Court ruled that law enforcement requires a warrant to access historical cell-site location information (CSLI). Chief Justice John Roberts noted that individuals do not surrender all Fourth Amendment protections simply by venturing into the public sphere. The Court determined that compiling a "detailed and comprehensive record of the person’s movements" is vastly different from a police officer casually observing a car drive by.
This is a clear application of "detailed and comprehensive record" creation, and I can't see how Flock could argue with this recent precedent.
The other problem with this opinion piece is that the author assumes that if a citizen is not physically pulled over, they are being "left alone." He completely dismisses the reality that capturing, logging, and storing the movements of millions of innocent, law-abiding citizens in a searchable database is inherently intrusive.
With an LLM, the inference cost per query is orders of magnitude higher. Unless thy have a way to command significantly higher CPMs -- perhaps by arguing intent signal is stringer in a conversation than a keyword search -- it feels like a difficult margin to sustain.
Here is a more recent video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8NXF2rtaEg