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T969389Court Decisions & Statutes
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Landmark rulings on government surveillance technology.
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Commonwealth v. Bell (2024)
T969389VA | ALPR
Tcf362fCircuit court suppressed ALPR evidence (later reversed on appeal)
T969389Norfolk Circuit Court Judge Jamilah LeCruise ruled on May 10, 2024
T969389that collecting location data from Norfolk's 172 Flock ALPRs
T969389constitutes a search...
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Jason Vernau Wrongful Arrest (Miami) (2024)
T969389FL | Facial recognition
Tcf362fCharges dismissed
T969389Medical entrepreneur Jason Vernau, 49, spent three days in jail in
T969389July 2024 after Miami police accused him of cashing a fraudulent
T969389$36,000 check at...
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United States v. Smith (2024)
T969389US | Geofence
Tcf362fGeofence warrant held unconstitutional; evidence admitted under good faith.
T969389The Fifth Circuit held geofence warrants are categorically
T969389unconstitutional 'modern-day general warrants' because executing one
T969389requires searching...
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United States v. Chatrie (4th Cir.) (2024)
T969389US | Geofence
Tcf362fPanel held obtaining ~2 hours of Google Location History via geofence warrant was not a Fourth Amendment search (third-party doctrine); en banc court split evenly.
T969389The Fourth Circuit's geofence decision applying the third-party
T969389doctrine to short-duration Location History, which created the circuit
T969389split against...
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People v. Seymour (2023)
T969389CO | Keyword Warrant (Reverse Keyword Search)
Tcf362fEvidence admitted under good faith; framework significant. Reverse-keyword warrant upheld here, but privacy interest recognized.
T969389Denver police used a reverse keyword warrant compelling Google to
T969389identify everyone who searched a specific address before an arson. The
T969389Colorado...
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Cothron v. White Castle System, Inc. (2023)
T969389IL | Biometric Privacy (BIPA)
Tcf362fPlaintiff won. A separate BIPA claim accrues with every unconsented scan or transmission.
T969389On a certified question, the Illinois Supreme Court held that BIPA
T969389claims accrue per scan/transmission, not just at first collection —
T969389exposing...
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United States v. Rhine (2023)
T969389US | Geofence
Tcf362fMotion to suppress denied; geofence warrant upheld as sufficiently particular and supported by probable cause.
T969389The court upheld the Google geofence warrant used to identify a
T969389January 6 Capitol defendant - one of the first opinions to sustain a
T969389geofence warrant...
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Woodruff v. Oliver (Porcha Woodruff) (2023)
T969389MI | Facial Recognition
Tcf362fCivil-rights claim against the warrant-affiant officer contested; part of the Detroit face-recognition wrongful-arrest cluster.
T969389Woodruff, eight months pregnant, was wrongly arrested for carjacking
T969389after Detroit police matched her to gas-station footage using facial
T969389recognition...
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Patel v. Facebook (now Meta) (2022)
T969389IL | Facial recognition
Tcf362fSettlement - $650M
T969389Class action under Illinois BIPA. Facebook used facial recognition on
T969389photos without consent. Settled for $650 million, largest biometric
T969389privacy...
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ACLU v. Clearview AI (2022)
T969389IL | Facial recognition
Tcf362fSettlement - $51.75M (23% equity stake)
T969389ACLU sued Clearview AI under BIPA for scraping 40+ billion photos from
T969389social media and the open web to build a facial recognition database
T969389marketed...
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United States v. Moore-Bush (2022)
T969389US | Pole Camera
Tcf362fEn banc court split 3-3, leaving prior circuit precedent intact; conviction affirmed on good-faith grounds.
T969389ATF ran a pole camera across from a home for 8 months without a
T969389warrant. The en banc First Circuit divided evenly on whether long-term
T969389targeted...
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Vance v. Amazon / Vance v. Microsoft (2022)
T969389IL | BIPA / Facial Recognition
Tcf362fClaims initially survived dismissal, but the companies later won summary judgment on extraterritoriality grounds (conduct occurred outside Illinois).
T969389Plaintiffs alleged Amazon and Microsoft used IBM's 'Diversity in
T969389Faces' dataset (built from Flickr photos) to train facial recognition
T969389in violation...
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Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle v. Baltimore (2021)
T969389MD | Aerial surveillance
Tcf362fEn banc: warrantless aerial surveillance unconstitutional
T9693894th Circuit ruled en banc that Baltimore's Aerial Investigation
T969389Research (AIR) program -- persistent wide-area aerial surveillance
T969389tracking all...
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United States v. Tuggle (2021)
T969389US | Pole Camera / Persistent Surveillance
Tcf362fGovernment won. 18 months of warrantless pole-camera surveillance was not a search.
T969389Agents ran three pole cameras on a suspect's home for 18 months. The
T969389Seventh Circuit held that filming the exterior of a home from public
T969389property,...
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TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez (2021)
T969389US | Third-Party / Data Standing
Tcf362f5-4; only plaintiffs whose inaccurate data was actually disclosed to third parties had Article III standing ('no concrete harm, no standing').
T969389An FCRA class action where TransUnion flagged consumers as potential
T969389terrorists. The Court held that a bare statutory violation or risk of
T969389future...
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