NACDL Fourth Amendment Center
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NACDL's Fourth Amendment Center seeks to challenge legal doctrines that undermine privacy rights in the digital age and offers direct assistance to defense lawyers handling cases involving new surveillance technologies.
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Lol. Axon: "We ain't them Flock snoopers you've learned to hate: we're a whole 'nother snooper you ain't hated yet!" 😆
Cops asked Axon to change their camera's shape "for the optics" while they "batten down the hatches." Same warrantless plate-tracking, new disguise. 👀
🧵 via @404media.co
Cops asked Axon to change their camera's shape "for the optics" while they "batten down the hatches." Same warrantless plate-tracking, new disguise. 👀
🧵 via @404media.co
September 2, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Lol. Axon: "We ain't them Flock snoopers you've learned to hate: we're a whole 'nother snooper you ain't hated yet!" 😆
Cops asked Axon to change their camera's shape "for the optics" while they "batten down the hatches." Same warrantless plate-tracking, new disguise. 👀
🧵 via @404media.co
Cops asked Axon to change their camera's shape "for the optics" while they "batten down the hatches." Same warrantless plate-tracking, new disguise. 👀
🧵 via @404media.co
Let us paint a picture:
- Discovery requests are due
- There’s some weird tech at play that you haven’t seen before or don’t know much about
- You’re not sure what’s happening or what to ask for
- Maybe you’re a little stressed
Sound familiar?
- Discovery requests are due
- There’s some weird tech at play that you haven’t seen before or don’t know much about
- You’re not sure what’s happening or what to ask for
- Maybe you’re a little stressed
Sound familiar?
August 25, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Let us paint a picture:
- Discovery requests are due
- There’s some weird tech at play that you haven’t seen before or don’t know much about
- You’re not sure what’s happening or what to ask for
- Maybe you’re a little stressed
Sound familiar?
- Discovery requests are due
- There’s some weird tech at play that you haven’t seen before or don’t know much about
- You’re not sure what’s happening or what to ask for
- Maybe you’re a little stressed
Sound familiar?
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How can policymakers and law enforcement agencies balance the public safety potential of new technologies while ensuring the protection of privacy and civil liberties?
📆 Register now for CCJ’s next webinar on 8/25 at 12pm ET: events.zoom.us/ev/Ap36yA99J...
📆 Register now for CCJ’s next webinar on 8/25 at 12pm ET: events.zoom.us/ev/Ap36yA99J...
August 12, 2026 at 5:03 PM
How can policymakers and law enforcement agencies balance the public safety potential of new technologies while ensuring the protection of privacy and civil liberties?
📆 Register now for CCJ’s next webinar on 8/25 at 12pm ET: events.zoom.us/ev/Ap36yA99J...
📆 Register now for CCJ’s next webinar on 8/25 at 12pm ET: events.zoom.us/ev/Ap36yA99J...
Sadly, this news doesn't 'shock' us. Aggressive police tech & surveillance in schools have become the norm for youth today. More on this topic in our forthcoming report, "Algorithmic Adolescence." apnews.com/article/shoc...
Nebraska's largest school district asks police to stop using electric shock gloves on students
Omaha police agreed to stop carrying gloves that can deliver electric shocks in the halls of Nebraska's largest public school district.
apnews.com
August 21, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Sadly, this news doesn't 'shock' us. Aggressive police tech & surveillance in schools have become the norm for youth today. More on this topic in our forthcoming report, "Algorithmic Adolescence." apnews.com/article/shoc...
ALPR systems like Flock track more than your license plate! They can also do pattern analysis and search by “a place, a stretch of time, and a pattern of behavior.” Sound familiar? A virtual panopticon by any other name… www.wired.com/story/flock-...
Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plate...
www.wired.com
August 19, 2026 at 5:28 PM
ALPR systems like Flock track more than your license plate! They can also do pattern analysis and search by “a place, a stretch of time, and a pattern of behavior.” Sound familiar? A virtual panopticon by any other name… www.wired.com/story/flock-...
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Automated License Plate Readers scan and log every car that passes, building a searchable record of where you've been. How can defenders challenge it?
Join our 9/23 webinar on how police use networks like Flock, the constitutional stakes and how to fight it.
Register: www.nacdl.org/Event/Engage...
Join our 9/23 webinar on how police use networks like Flock, the constitutional stakes and how to fight it.
Register: www.nacdl.org/Event/Engage...
August 14, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Automated License Plate Readers scan and log every car that passes, building a searchable record of where you've been. How can defenders challenge it?
Join our 9/23 webinar on how police use networks like Flock, the constitutional stakes and how to fight it.
Register: www.nacdl.org/Event/Engage...
Join our 9/23 webinar on how police use networks like Flock, the constitutional stakes and how to fight it.
Register: www.nacdl.org/Event/Engage...
What does the Supreme Court’s Chatrie decision mean for ALPRs like Flock?
August 13, 2026 at 6:15 PM
What does the Supreme Court’s Chatrie decision mean for ALPRs like Flock?
@nacdl.org's Fourth Amendment Center is now on Bluesky! Follow us for the latest news and resources on new surveillance tools, technologies, and tactics that infringe on the constitutional rights of people in America.
August 11, 2026 at 7:08 PM
@nacdl.org's Fourth Amendment Center is now on Bluesky! Follow us for the latest news and resources on new surveillance tools, technologies, and tactics that infringe on the constitutional rights of people in America.
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🧵First came the Flock cameras. Now come the drones.
Hundreds of police departments are rolling out autonomous, AI-driven surveillance drones that can follow one car across a whole city and film through your apartment window. A new @truthout.org report lays it out.
Hundreds of police departments are rolling out autonomous, AI-driven surveillance drones that can follow one car across a whole city and film through your apartment window. A new @truthout.org report lays it out.
August 11, 2026 at 12:52 PM
🧵First came the Flock cameras. Now come the drones.
Hundreds of police departments are rolling out autonomous, AI-driven surveillance drones that can follow one car across a whole city and film through your apartment window. A new @truthout.org report lays it out.
Hundreds of police departments are rolling out autonomous, AI-driven surveillance drones that can follow one car across a whole city and film through your apartment window. A new @truthout.org report lays it out.
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"I don't think judges understand the country is now blanketed with these things and they're all interconnected."
That is Sid Thaxter of NACDL's Fourth Amendment Center in The New York Times on Flock's creepy license plate cameras. They read your plate everywhere you drive. And they never forget.
That is Sid Thaxter of NACDL's Fourth Amendment Center in The New York Times on Flock's creepy license plate cameras. They read your plate everywhere you drive. And they never forget.
August 10, 2026 at 11:22 AM
"I don't think judges understand the country is now blanketed with these things and they're all interconnected."
That is Sid Thaxter of NACDL's Fourth Amendment Center in The New York Times on Flock's creepy license plate cameras. They read your plate everywhere you drive. And they never forget.
That is Sid Thaxter of NACDL's Fourth Amendment Center in The New York Times on Flock's creepy license plate cameras. They read your plate everywhere you drive. And they never forget.
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BIG Fourth Amendment win.
"Tower dumps are per se unconstitutional general warrants," U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves held last night in Mississippi.
The court relied on Chatrie and Smith, landmark NACDL Fourth Amendment Center victories.
Read the ruling:
www.nacdl.org/getattachmen...
"Tower dumps are per se unconstitutional general warrants," U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves held last night in Mississippi.
The court relied on Chatrie and Smith, landmark NACDL Fourth Amendment Center victories.
Read the ruling:
www.nacdl.org/getattachmen...
August 6, 2026 at 3:25 PM
BIG Fourth Amendment win.
"Tower dumps are per se unconstitutional general warrants," U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves held last night in Mississippi.
The court relied on Chatrie and Smith, landmark NACDL Fourth Amendment Center victories.
Read the ruling:
www.nacdl.org/getattachmen...
"Tower dumps are per se unconstitutional general warrants," U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves held last night in Mississippi.
The court relied on Chatrie and Smith, landmark NACDL Fourth Amendment Center victories.
Read the ruling:
www.nacdl.org/getattachmen...