Comments on: You do not have a right to privacy in your car http://www.michealcottingham.com/blog/2008/07/12/you-do-not-have-a-right-to-privacy-in-your-car/ Just another useless blog Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:30:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Micheal http://www.michealcottingham.com/blog/2008/07/12/you-do-not-have-a-right-to-privacy-in-your-car/#comment-26 Micheal Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:38:11 +0000 http://www.michealcottingham.com/blog/?p=21#comment-26 That is an interesting question and one I haven't thought about before. I'm certainly for privacy, but I do understand the reason behind the case law that governs this. As for the RV, that one is tricky. As I understand it, if the RV is plugged up and dumping sewage/charging the electricity/etc., then it is considered offlimits without a warrant. However, if it is moving, then it is considered mobile and a warrant is not needed. That's how I understand that part. But like I said, RV's are tricky. That is an interesting question and one I haven’t thought about before. I’m certainly for privacy, but I do understand the reason behind the case law that governs this. As for the RV, that one is tricky. As I understand it, if the RV is plugged up and dumping sewage/charging the electricity/etc., then it is considered offlimits without a warrant. However, if it is moving, then it is considered mobile and a warrant is not needed. That’s how I understand that part. But like I said, RV’s are tricky.

]]> By: Dave Rathbun http://www.michealcottingham.com/blog/2008/07/12/you-do-not-have-a-right-to-privacy-in-your-car/#comment-25 Dave Rathbun Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:32:52 +0000 http://www.michealcottingham.com/blog/?p=21#comment-25 Could you envision a challenge to this law based on the new class called "mobile homeless"? I have read a number of different articles that talk about people getting forced out of their homes and now living in their cars. Here is one article from the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/us/02cars.html There are a number of other articles you can find quite easily that talk about this situation. If your home is your car, do your privacy rights get extended to your choice of domicile? Or are they lost? What if you've sold your house and are travelling the country in an RV? Same thing? Could you envision a challenge to this law based on the new class called “mobile homeless”? I have read a number of different articles that talk about people getting forced out of their homes and now living in their cars. Here is one article from the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/us/02cars.html

There are a number of other articles you can find quite easily that talk about this situation. If your home is your car, do your privacy rights get extended to your choice of domicile? Or are they lost? What if you’ve sold your house and are travelling the country in an RV? Same thing?

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