Clearly a different situation considering the guy was in a rental vehical with GPS.
Of course their is no reasonable expectation of privacy here. It's not his car lol. The LEARN db query was auxillary to the precedent here.
I can't see the jump your making at all or how this precedent holds any would hold water in the case of a innocent party. Its probably just a matter of time until the perfect case is presented and new case law established. Precedents change you know?
Is there a reasonable expectation of privacy operating a car on public roads?
People generally don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy in public. That's why you can record and photograph people in public whether or not they agree to be recorded. It's the same logic that makes red light cameras and parking license plate scanners legal.
No, there is no reasonable expectation of privacy whole driving on public roads. This was the case even before Flock. ALPRs were invented in the 70s and started getting widely deployed in the 90s. It's remarkable how many people don't realize this technology decades old.
