Yet again, the public is being asked to trade privacy for safety. This time, truckers are in the midst of the controversy, sparked by a proposed rule creating a digital tracking system for commercial truckers that may further stress the nation’s already weak supply chains.
The boundaries between physical and digital spheres are collapsing. The digital sharing of personal information is now embedded into the economic and relational activities of daily life.
Privacy won at the ballot box on Tuesday when Montana’s C-48 passed. This ballot measure was a legislatively recommended amendment to the state’s constitution that would require a search warrant to access an individual’s data or electronic communications.
Surveillance and self-governance are like oil and water. They do no not mix well. Increasingly, US cities are turning to surveillance systems in an effort to undercut the rise of violent crime.
A new Houston law leverages funds from The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) to require businesses to provide police access to private surveillance footage.
General warrants give law enforcement agents broad authority “to search and seize unspecified places or persons.”