{"id":43598,"date":"2020-05-06T05:40:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T10:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=43598"},"modified":"2020-05-06T05:40:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T10:40:15","slug":"eff-courts-issue-rulings-in-two-cases-challenging-law-enforcement-searches-of-license-plate-databases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=43598","title":{"rendered":"EFF: Courts Issue Rulings in Two Cases Challenging Law Enforcement Searches of License Plate Databases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>EFF: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2020\/05\/courts-issue-rulings-two-cases-challenging-law-enforcement-searches-license-plate\">Courts Issue Rulings in Two Cases Challenging Law Enforcement Searches of License Plate Databases<\/a> by Jennifer Lynch:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>This week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion in United States v. Yang, a case challenging the search of an automated license plate reader database under the Fourth Amendment. Although the court, citing EFF\u2019s amicus brief, recognized ALPRs capture massive amounts of data on Americans across the country, it decided not to reach the search issue. Instead it held that because Yang was driving a rental car after his rental agreement ended when the search occurred, he didn\u2019t have the right to challenge the search.<\/p><p>The Ninth Circuit\u2019s decision follows an April opinion from Massachusetts\u2019s highest court in another ALPR case, Commonwealth v. McCarthy. In McCarthy, the court held that, although ALPRs raise clear privacy issues under the Fourth Amendment and Massachusetts\u2019s Article 14, McCarthy hadn\u2019t introduced sufficient facts to show that the search at issue in his case rose to the level of a constitutional violation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EFF: Courts Issue Rulings in Two Cases Challenging Law Enforcement Searches of License Plate Databases by Jennifer Lynch:<\/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-43598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43599,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43598\/revisions\/43599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}