Docker inspect returns [] when it has no permissions to docker.sock

[discordianfish]

$ docker inspect 2b81d178e32a
[]
# docker inspect 2b81d178e32a
[
{
    "Id": "2b81d178e32ad259b7fff5caca03b83111db452e0d6710....

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[cpuguy83]

For me, and yes this is still incorrect, I get an error message + []:

$ docker inspect test
Cannot connect to the Docker daemon. Is the docker daemon running on this host?[]

[cpuguy83]

#17715