by Anthony W. Accurso
An effort by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (“EFF”) to track police use of surveillance technologies is butting up against the decentralized nature of our law enforcement networks in that open-records requests to different agencies for the same information result in wildly variable information — …
by Anthony W. Accurso
Criminal Legal News has previously reported on data broker companies — companies that buy and sell data on consumers, most often location data harvested from mobile apps. Fog Data Science is one such company, though one that some believe is quite possibly more …
by Anthony W. Accurso
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit vacated the U.S. District Court for the District of Western Tennessee’s denial of a defendant’s suppression motion, ruling the court applied the standard for judging exceptions to the warrant requirement under the attenuation doctrine instead …
by Anthony W. Accurso
The Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) of Massachusetts validated one warrant for cell site location information (“CSLI”) while finding a second deficient for failure to establish probable cause, and it issued prospective guidelines for CSLI warrants going forward.
Seven businesses around the Boston area …
by Anthony W. Accurso
In a case of first impression, the Supreme Court of Wyoming held that the district court erred in ruling an officer had implied consent to enter a suspect’s home without a warrant because the totality of circumstances would not lead a reasonable officer to …
by Anthony W. Accurso
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania held that challenges to the legality of an imposed sentence — including registration requirements under SORNA — cannot be waived and can thus be brought at any time.
For various sexually-related offenses, Shaune Jarel Thorne, Sr. was sentenced …
by Anthony W. Accurso
A company called Ventra in February 2022 presented its new facial recognition software that rapidly searches voluminous video footage for a face and then identifies the faces of other people who came in contact with the target.
The relevant portion of the presentation …
by Anthony W. Accurso
The revolving door between government agencies and private corporations has been well documented in industries like healthcare, defense, and fossil fuels, along with the democracy-eroding effects of such relationships. A worrying new trend shows surveillance companies and law enforcement agencies establishing such relationships.
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by Anthony W. Accurso
The shady economy of data brokers vacuums up personal data from hundreds of millions of people — mostly in the U.S. but also in other countries — and this data is sold to anyone willing to pay for it, including law enforcement, intelligence agencies, …
by Anthony W. Accurso
Police are tapping into a new source for their insatiable desire to collect video footage of innocent citizens — autonomous vehicles.
Cops don’t like being filmed. Despite citizens having a right to capture officers on camera during the performance of their official duties …
