Flock Cameras (thread 18), Episode 4: Madison vs. the Flock: License-Plate Cameras and the Fourth Amendment

We went back to Madison and the founders to figure out what happens when the government can record everywhere you go just because it can. This is about more than finding a stolen car; it’s about whether collecting everyone’s movements is something the state needs to justify in advance.

We talk general warrants, Carpenter and Jones, and why the Fourth Amendment’s demand for particularity still matters when technology makes mass tracking cheap and easy.