Judge calls a police Flock search “mass surveillance”
A US federal judge in Oklahoma ruled that a deputy’s warrantless search of plate-reader data broke the Fourth Amendment. Flock says the ruling goes against most courts and expects it to be overturned.
US District Judge Sara E. Hill ruled on October 1 that a Tulsa County deputy carried out an unconstitutional search when he looked up a driver’s plate in automated plate-reader systems, including Flock. The search returned more than 50 sightings of the car over about a month. The judge called such networks “a type of indiscriminate mass surveillance”.