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 were subject to ...
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 believe he ...
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 on April 9, ...
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 to surveillance research ...
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.
While Amazon recently ...
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, and the ...
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 in public, some ...
by Anthony W. Accurso
Few topics elicit the level of disgust, outrage, and hyperbole as the subject of the sexual abuse of children does in America. No child should be subjected to sexual assault, but our collective efforts to prevent this harm should be mindful of other values we hold ...
by Anthony W. Accurso
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit held that the various hunches of drug-related activity articulated by a Utah Highway Patrol Trooper were insufficient to prolong a traffic stop in order for a drug-detection dog to arrive on scene to search for drugs, that ...
by Anthony W. Accurso
This June, the Supreme Court decided Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 142 S. Ct. 2228 (2022), a ruling that fundamentally changed the landscape of law relating to abortion access in America. This change will play out in multiple areas of the law, though several ...
