05.10.19. By Steven Melendez. An Idaho federal magistrate judge refused to issue a search warrant forcing someone accused of having child pornography to unlock their cellphone with a fingerprint. The ruling, which didn’t identify the accused person by name or gender, cited the U.S. Constitution’s Fifth Amendment, which says people can’t be forced to incriminate themselves, and […]
By Malcolm Owen, May 02, 2019. Google is offering users a new way to try and safeguard their privacy, by providing an option to automatically delete logs of Web & App Activity as well as Location History data after a specific period of time, rather than requiring users to manually delete it. One of the biggest […]
By John R. Ellement and Danny McDonald, April 23, 2019. The state’s highest court for the first time on Tuesday extended the right to privacy to encompass cellphone location data, but preserved the right of law enforcement to “ping” cellphones in emergencies, such as a search for an armed murder suspect. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Judicial […]
By: Tom Ramstack, Apr 9, 2019. DENVER • Aurora police didn’t violate a murder suspect’s constitutional rights by searching the contents of his cellphone, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday. The ruling reaches beyond the murder case of Shaun R. Davis into the challenges courts face in handling new technologies. Davis gave police his pass code […]
By MEG KINNARD, Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. — Mar 28, 2019 Federal legislation proposed Thursday would give state prison officials the ability they have long sought to jam the signals of cellphones smuggled to inmates within their walls. U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and U.S. Rep. David Kustoff of Tennessee introduced companion bills in both chambers, […]
