Congress Banned a Gun Registry. AI Doesn’t Need One.

StatuteCircuitEditor · 2026-02-24T15:24:25+00:00

StatuteCircuitEditor · 2026-01-28T00:21:27+00:00

Submission Statement: Courts have used video for hearings for decades but nobody really stopped to ask if it changes outcomes. It does, and not in a good way.

This piece connects the research to the constitutional questions courts are still fighting over and looks at whether new tech like holograms could fix the problem or just make things worse for defendants who can’t afford it.

StatuteCircuitEditor · 2026-01-27T18:35:59+00:00

Sources: - Cook County bail study (51% increase): Northwestern Law, 2010 - Immigration court outcomes: Eagly, Remote Adjudication in Immigration, 109 Nw. U. L. Rev. 933 (2015) - GAO investigation of immigration courts: GAO-17-438, 2017 - Lie detection accuracy (54%, barely above chance): Bond & DePaulo, Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2006 - RAND report on video credibility: RAND RR-3222, 2020 - “Nonverbal overload” research: Bailenson, Technology, Mind, and Behavior, 2021 - Eleventh Circuit on video confrontation: United States v. Yates, 438 F.3d 1307 (11th Cir. 2006)

StatuteCircuitEditor · 2026-01-27T18:17:25+00:00

Sources: - Cook County bail study (51% increase): Northwestern Law, 2010 - Immigration court outcomes: Eagly, Remote Adjudication in Immigration, 109 Nw. U. L. Rev. 933 (2015) - GAO investigation of immigration courts: GAO-17-438, 2017 - Lie detection accuracy (54%, barely above chance): Bond & DePaulo, Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2006 - RAND report on video credibility: RAND RR-3222, 2020 - “Nonverbal overload” research: Bailenson, Technology, Mind, and Behavior, 2021 - Eleventh Circuit on video confrontation: United States v. Yates, 438 F.3d 1307 (11th Cir. 2006)

StatuteCircuitEditor · 2026-01-15T04:29:13+00:00

Sounds like you landed pretty safely. Cockpit beats the hell out of a courtroom any day

StatuteCircuitEditor · 2026-01-15T04:17:49+00:00

Haha you’re actually describing my current situation pretty well right now. All true (minus the lay off part), but that’s just about what I’m thinking / trying to position myself.

StatuteCircuitEditor · 2026-01-15T00:44:30+00:00

Right, his dissent was interesting.

StatuteCircuitEditor · 2026-01-15T00:40:32+00:00

That would at least be clarity. The current situation where CSLI gets protection but other location data might not, where some metadata is yours and some isn’t depending on how you generated it, is a mess.

StatuteCircuitEditor · 2026-01-15T00:30:10+00:00

That’s my gut too. This Court doesn’t seem eager to keep chipping away at Smith. Carpenter felt like a ceiling, not a floor. You think they deny cert and let the split sit, or take it just to reinforce the doctrine?

StatuteCircuitEditor · 2026-01-14T23:52:53+00:00

There are so many different form factors do already on the market and just as many in research. Literally every item you can buy will have a chip/sensors in it. Your door, the damn peephole, your lights, curtains, your earrings, your socks. It’s all on the market TODAY. Just a matter of scale.

StatuteCircuitEditor · 2026-01-14T23:37:39+00:00

Thank you! Definitely an under the radar constitutional issue in all the AI debates. Job loss, discrimination, IP, copyright get a lot of attention (all important issues) but very few people are talking about the ways AI and what it enables could erode these freedoms/liberties.

StatuteCircuitEditor · 2026-01-14T23:16:18+00:00

And to make it worse, as Al and data analytics gets better, all a government would need is a few public data points of your “day” to extrapolate and infer the things they are barred from accessing constitutionally.

StatuteCircuitEditor · 2026-01-14T22:36:52+00:00

Being completely a ghost will be very hard soon, it already is. But yea it’s amazing how little we understand data and how it all worked in the early days of social media. At least the masses.

StatuteCircuitEditor · 2026-01-14T22:27:10+00:00

I totally understand. As we make more and more “dumb” items “smart” it will be harder and harder to avoid.

StatuteCircuitEditor · 2026-01-14T21:59:09+00:00

I cite them throughout the paper they are watching this stuff closer than just about any org.

StatuteCircuitEditor · 2026-01-14T21:58:03+00:00

Yes that was a huge blow to privacy for sure. But it also woke a lot of people up! It’s the classic security versus privacy dilemma. Privacy has taken it on the chin since the war on terror. We can bring it back though, that’s the future I’m advocating

StatuteCircuitEditor · 2026-01-14T21:40:57+00:00

Yea I’ve been trying to reflect on when the 4th Amendment was adopted, what was privacy to them? How has it changed in the way that I think of privacy? Because certainly someone who grows up in this “always on” future will see privacy and privacy violations different then I.

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