Jessica Chambers Trial Live Day 5

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A more concrete timeline of Jessica Chambers last day was testified in Saturdays session of court. In the morning cell phone records showed that Tellis’ phone number was in the top 10 contacts in Chambers’ phone, with 111 calls and 75 messages.  Mississippi Bureau of Investigation agent Timothy Douglas said he thinks the state of mind of first responders could’ve impacted their percention when they heard Chambers say someone named “Eric” or “Derek” burned her. Paul Rowlette of the U.S. Department of Defense was called an expert witness as he had a spent a large time studying Chambers phone records as well as the connection of key suspects to Jessica…

Read More from Memphis News Channel 3 Here

Commit a crime? Your Fitbit, key fob or pacemaker could snitch on you

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The case, which is in pretrial motions, is perhaps the best example to date of how Internet-connected, data-collecting smart devices such as fitness trackers, digital home assistants, thermostats, TVs and even pill bottles are beginning to transform criminal justice. The ubiquitous devices can serve as a legion of witnesses, capturing our every move, biometrics and what we have ingested. They sometimes listen in or watch us in the privacy of our homes. And police are increasingly looking to the devices for clues. The prospect has alarmed privacy advocates, who say too many consumers are unaware of the revealing information these devices are harvesting. They also point out there are few laws specifically crafted to guide how law enforcement officials collect smart-device data…

Read More from the Chicago Tribune Here

Supreme Court takes up warrantless cellphone searches

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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case this term that experts are calling a “blockbuster” and could have significant implications on one’s expectations of privacy. The case, Carpenter v. U.S., raises the question of whether the federal government’s search and seizure of cellphone records without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment. The case stems from a string of armed robberies in Ohio and Michigan in 2010 and 2011. During its investigation into the robberies, the federal government applied for and obtained court orders to access cellphone location records for several suspects, including Timothy Carpenter, the lead plaintiff in the case. The government received several months of information…

Read More from the Washington Examiner Here

Coming soon to a telephone pole really near you: The wireless future

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Before mobile phone companies roll out the next generation of super-fast cellular service, the networks powering the “internet of things” built into all corners of daily lifewill have to put up thousands of small radio transmitters like the 3-foot tall Verizon cylinder perched on a streetlight across Sabin Street from the Dunkin’ Donuts Center. Miniature versions of the traditional cell towers that have made mobile phones possible, these “small cells” are quickly becoming the preferred method for wireless carriers to bolster their mobile networks, especially in urban areas or places, such as stadiums, with lots of people packed together.

Not only will small cells help expand the current 4G LTE networks that provide most cellular service, they are an essential part of plans to roll out a new 5G network in the not-too-distant future…

Read More from Providence Journal Here

Southern Prisons Have a Cellphone Smuggling Problem

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Cellphones smuggled into prisons — enabling inmates to order murders, plan escapes, deal drugs and extort money — have become a scourge in a bloc of states where corrections officers annually confiscate as many as one for every three inmates. Contraband devices snuck in by visitors or prison staff are a problem at lockups across the nation, but an NBC News review of data from 44 states shows that nine of the 10 states with the highest cellphone seizure rates are in the South. In South Carolina, prison officers have found and taken one phone for every three inmates, the highest rate in the country. In Oklahoma, it’s one phone for every six prisoners, the nation’s second-highest rate. Other states in the top 10 are Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi…

Read more From NBC News Here