The Supreme Court, big data and 1984

United States v. Jones. This is the GPS case argued at the Supreme Court last week and is specifically about whether police needed a search warrant to place a GPS device on a suspect’s car and monitor his movements for 28 days, but the Court’s holding could have a much broader effect. Several justices seized upon a very important question: How much data is too much before allowable surveillance crosses the line into an invasion of privacy?

Derrick Harris write up is on GigaOM.  Worth reading and then The Judicial Response to Mass Police Surveillance  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1956787