Billions of internet-of-things sensors already operate beyond any constitutional constraint

Evidence

As a 2016 article on the “internet of things” by Fourth Amendment scholar Andrew Guthrie Ferguson concludes, “If billions of sensors filled with personal data fall outside of Fourth Amendment protections, a large-scale surveillance network will exist without constitutional limits.” As we have seen, it already does. Dutch scholars make a similar case for the inadequacy of Dutch law as it falls behind Big Other, no longer able to effectively assert the sanctity of the home from the invasive action of either industry or the state: “The walls no longer shield the individual effectively from the outside in the pursuing of… personal life without intrusion.…” — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1535

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Fourth Amendment debates on warrantless surveillance and privacy case law.