Do Americans have a reasonable expectation of privacy in public? Reason has published extensively on the problems associated with law enforcement's current use of automatic license plate readers and the ongoing nationwide backlash to mass government surveillance. In response, proponents of the technology commonly argue that concerns over privacy violations are unfounded. Besides, the argument goes that Americans "have no reasonable expectation of privacy in public" or while "using public roads."
But is that true? And where does this argument come from?
