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Ianal: Woudl the Supreme Court reexamine right to privacy in public?

A Hacker News user questions whether the U.S. Supreme Court might reexamine the right to privacy in public, citing United States v. Knotts and the proliferation of government cameras and personal devices like Meta Glasses, with AI potentially fueling a backlash and European-style privacy laws.

read1 min views1 publishedAug 16, 2026

| |||||||||||| 2 points by | With so many government cameras, and increasingly shrinking personal life-blogging camera devices (i.e. Meta Glasses), might the Supreme Court feel it necessary to reexamine United States v. Knotts, which laid out the in-public, thus no privacy doctrine? The public concern of cameras, now with AI, may lead to a broader backlash against them, and laws akin to privacy laws in Europe. | ||||||||||| |

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