{"id":65157,"date":"2026-11-08T10:54:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T15:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=65157"},"modified":"2026-11-09T10:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T15:57:15","slug":"cal-l-rev-your-robotaxi-is-watching-you-does-the-fourth-amendment-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=65157","title":{"rendered":"Cal.L.Rev.: Your Robotaxi Is Watching You. Does the Fourth Amendment Care?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.californialawreview.org\/online\/robotaxi-watching-you\">Your Robotaxi Is Watching You. Does the Fourth Amendment Care?<\/a> by Henry F. Fradella, California Law Review online (Nov. 2026):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>A semi-dystopian scene unfolded shortly before 4 a.m. on September 3, 2026, when a driverless taxi in San Francisco pulled to the curb on its own accord. Waymo told the Los Angeles Times it stopped the car after detecting a \u201cviolation of our terms of service involving a firearm\u201d and alerted emergency services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police conducted what they called a \u201chigh-risk vehicle stop,\u201d detained two young passengers, and reported finding a loaded AR-style rifle, plus suspected marijuana and mace spray. Per SFGate, both were placed into juvenile detention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Few people would dispute that teenagers roaming with a loaded rifle at 4 a.m. pose a public safety problem. But the episode raises privacy questions about robotaxi rides. An interior camera recorded the ride, a remote operations team could halt the car and coordinate with responders, and company policy barred weapons. Together, they let Waymo identify a violation, stop the car, call police, and generate data officers could later seek.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your Robotaxi Is Watching You. Does the Fourth Amendment Care? by Henry F. Fradella, California Law Review online (Nov. 2026):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65157","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=65157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65158,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65157\/revisions\/65158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}