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Google stands accused of agreeing to overly-broad search warrants, which might violate the Fourth Amendment.
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Continue reading Google Gives Cops Your Search Terms – Let the Frog-Boiling Commence
The danger in forcing companies with location-tracking apps to hand over the data to help solve crimes When you install a “Black Friday” app on your cellphone, you aren’t really expecting it to be used to identify you as a suspect or a witness to a cr… Continue reading Don’t (Geo)Fence Me In: Courts Order Google To Give Up Location Data
FBI agents issued Google with a warrant in November 2018, seeking its help with a bank robbery the month before. Continue reading FBI asks Google for help finding criminals
A California court has ruled that government agencies can’t compel suspects to unlock their smart devices with biometric authentication because it violates the self-incrimination clause in the Fifth Amendment, writes Forbes. This applies even if … Continue reading Authorities Can’t Force Suspects to Unlock Phones with Biometrics, Rules California Court
Google says it will always ‘push back’ when asked for ‘excessively broad requests for data’ Continue reading Sweeping dragnet search warrant given the go-ahead by judge
It is interesting to see the wide coverage of a police investigation looking to harvest data from the Amazon Echo, the always-listening home automation device you may know as Alexa. A murder investigation has led them to issue Amazon a warrant to fork over any recordings made during the time of a crime, and Amazon has so far refused.
Not too long ago, this is the sort of news would have been discussed on Hackaday but the rest of my family would have never heard about it. Now we just need to get everyone to think one step beyond …read more
Continue reading Police Want Alexa Data; People Begin to Realize It’s Listening
Legal experts call it an unprecedented demand. Continue reading Feds got search warrant demanding anyone’s fingerprints to open phones
A search warrant based partly on encrypted communications was thrown out. Continue reading Using PGP Phones Doesn’t Make You a Criminal, Ontario Judge Says
Forget about aliens and UFOs. Instead of watching the sky, apparently we need to be watching the police.
"The incident began January 2, 2013 after David Eckert finished shopping at the Wal-Mart in Deming. According to a federal lawsuit, Eckert didn’t make a complete stop at a stop sign coming out of the parking lot and was immediately stopped by law enforcement.
Eckert’s attorney, Continue reading Anal probes? A new kind of abduction scenario that started with clinched butt cheeks.
Forget about aliens and UFOs. Instead of watching the sky, apparently we need to be watching the police.
"The incident began January 2, 2013 after David Eckert finished shopping at the Wal-Mart in Deming. According to a federal lawsuit, Eckert didn’t make a complete stop at a stop sign coming out of the parking lot and was immediately stopped by law enforcement.
Eckert’s attorney, Continue reading Anal probes? A new kind of abduction scenario that started with clinched butt cheeks.