DOJ War on Privacy: App Store Data & Your Rights #shorts
The short version: Loyal Moses flags a DOJ tactic of using app store ToS to argue Fourth Amendment waiver — the same 'third-party doctrine' logic Flock and ALPR vendors lean on to dodge warrants.
Our Take
Creator Loyal Moses is sounding the alarm on a DOJ argument that clicking "I Agree" on an app store's terms of service somehow forfeits your Fourth Amendment protections — letting the government demand purchase records from Apple, Amazon, Google, and Walmart without a warrant. It's a short clip, but it points at something bigger: the legal theory that handing data to a company means you've surrendered your privacy rights to the government too.
That's the exact playbook that keeps automated license plate readers humming across the country. Flock Safety and its law enforcement customers routinely argue that once your plate, location, and travel patterns are captured and stored by a private vendor, it's "business records" the government can access freely — no warrant needed, no judge required. Whether it's your Amazon order history or your daily commute captured by a camera on a telephone pole, the underlying move is the same: strip away judicial oversight by calling mass data collection a matter of "consent" or "third-party records."
Credit to Loyal Moses for connecting the dots between tech policy and constitutional rights — this is the same fight we track every day with ALPR networks. If you want to see how many of these cameras are already watching your neighborhood, check out our camera map, and if you're ready to push back, visit our take-action page for tools to challenge warrantless surveillance where you live.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Loyal Moses, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.