{"id":36493,"date":"2019-02-21T14:28:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T19:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=36493"},"modified":"2019-02-21T14:28:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T19:28:35","slug":"the-verge-privacy-advocate-held-at-gunpoint-after-license-plate-reader-mistake-lawsuit-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=36493","title":{"rendered":"The Verge: Privacy advocate held at gunpoint after license plate reader mistake, lawsuit alleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Verge: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/2\/21\/18234785\/privacy-advocate-lawsuit-california-license-plate-reader\">Privacy advocate held at gunpoint after license plate reader mistake, lawsuit alleges<\/a> by Colin Lecher:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bay Area police pulled over a California privacy advocate and held him at gunpoint after a license plate reader error, a lawsuit alleges.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Hofer, chair of Oakland\u2019s Privacy Advisory Commission, said in a suit filed in December that he had rented a car and was traveling with his brother in November when he was pulled over by a Contra Costa Sheriff\u2019s Office deputy, and more police cars joined. Hofer alleges that an officer had a gun drawn and told him and his brother to exit the rental car, and that a deputy injured his brother by throwing him to the ground.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So: If human error on an outstanding arrest warrant (Evans, Herring) excuses bad arrests, what about computer errors?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Verge: Privacy advocate held at gunpoint after license plate reader mistake, lawsuit alleges by Colin Lecher:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36495,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36493\/revisions\/36495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}