Expectation of Privacy In Surveillance Cameras

In last month's article, "Can You Hear Me Now — Privacy of Discussions," I examined case law involving cell site location Information (CSLI) to discuss why that case law is inconsistent and deeply problematic when it finds a "reasonable expectation of privacy," as the concept is understood, in CSLI when interpreting the Fourth Amendment under the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights and Article I, Section 8 of the Pennsylvania Constitution. In summary, I discussed how cases finding a "privacy" violation when law enforcement gathers, without a warrant, CSLI of a target's cellphone over a period of time to determine where the target was over that period, make little sense because the CSLI captured is intercepted from public atmospheres in which the target had no reasonable expectation of privacy to track the target's public movements, in which the target had no reasonable expectation of privacy.