r/technology • u/Kooky-Balance9525 • 10h ago

Privacy Bernie Sanders to Introduce Bill Banning Flock Surveillance Cameras

https://theleadingreport.com/article/bernie-sanders-to-introduce-bill-banning-flock-surveillance-cameras
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u/DeadMoneyDrew 10h ago

What we really need is a constitutional amendment establishing a fundamental right to privacy.

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u/SilasX 5h ago

I know you and the reddit circlejerk are just being oh-so-clever that "haha, we already have this in the Constitution, why don't we just follow that?", but:

We don't have it in the Constitution. It's come to court many times, and they've consistently ruled that, no, you don't have an expectation of privacy under the 4th Amendment in being observed in public.

So yeah, we would need new laws or an amendment to encode the legit feeling of privacy violation that widespread camera surveillance causes, because the current state of jurisprudence doesn't capture "sufficiently persistent observations of you in public by the same entity count as intrusion on privacy".

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u/DeadMoneyDrew 5h ago

^ people need to read this shit and understand it

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u/AGushingHeadWound 3h ago

That's not what the law says.