By Cristian Farias, June 13, 2019. Timothy Carpenter won’t be remembered for the circumstances that landed him in prison, but for the Supreme Court case that bears his name. Carpenter v. United States, which set a new benchmark for privacy in the digital age, requires the police to obtain a warrant before obtaining cellphone location history from a phone […]
Published on June 1, 2019 by Emily McPhie. Washington, June 1, 2019 – Congress needs a plan for how to proceed when certain provisions of the USA FREEDOM Act, including the controversial call detail records program, expires in December, said speakers at a public forum held by members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board […]
By Donald Scarinci. 05/20/19. The Fifth Amendment protects you from being forced to provide self-incriminating testimony to law enforcement. But does that mean a police officer cannot force or threaten you into providing your password or unlocking your electronic devices? The New Jersey Supreme Court is poised to address that increasingly important question. State v. Andrews In State v. Andrews, […]
Social media, cell phone signals, online search history and other digital evidence led to the arrest and guilty plea of an Ohio man in the murder of a 23-year-old woman in the summer of 2018. By Eric Schwartzberg. Dayton Daily News. May 13, 2019 (TNS) — Technology, especially the kind used with text messages, search […]
By Robert Gehrke. 05/15/19. It’s all on “The Cloud” these days — our documents, our photos, our finances, our music, our lives. It’s so ubiquitous and growing so fast that one recent study said that by 2025 the cloud will be home to an estimated 175 zettabytes of data — whatever the heck that means. Actually, a […]
