The Increasing State of Surveillance

#1

Europe has already begun coercing the largest companies to keep information on everyone and reveal it to the government:

And this just in: a bill being considered in Canada would require all service providers to maintain metadata, and in a worrying trend, would give the government ways to get any amount of this data secretly, presumably without a warrant:

Europe is considering it:

Australia: https://www.quorumcyber.com/threat-intelligence/new-australian-hacking-bill/

In the UK, mass surveillance has already been normalized:

In the US, corporations already work with government to create similar networks of cameras:

Some cities like NYC have been rolling out robust systems to surveil the public:

https://www.nyc.gov/site/nycha/about/nycha-cctv-pilot.page

and they are now planning to massively expand the use of CCTV in areas around low cost housing:

On the other hand, here is a viable solution that would balance privacy and accountability:

#2

For everyday drivers, the practical stakes are bigger than one Virginia lawsuit. Automated plate readers are now standard-issue for police departments, HOAs, and even private toll operators, and the data they generate typically isn’t governed by the same warrant requirements as a phone tap or a home search. If the Fourth Circuit, and eventually the Supreme Court, extends Chatrie’s logic to camera networks, expect retention limits, warrant requirements, and interstate data-sharing restrictions to tighten considerably, the same way Carpenter reshaped how police request cell records after 2018.