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Article • January 15, 2025 • from CLN January, 2025
Protect Yourself Against Police Invasion of Your Cellphone by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In Riley v. California, 573 U.S. 373 (2014), the U.S. Supreme Court recognized the reality that the amount of data people keep on their cellphones is almost beyond measure. The Riley Court ruled that police must …
Article • November 1, 2024 • from CLN November, 2024
Seventh Circuit Announces Search of Cellphone at Border Constitutes Routine Inspection and Does Not Require Warrant, Probable Cause, or Even Individualized Suspicion by Sam Rutherford by Sam Rutherford The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that the routine inspection and search of a traveler’s electronics, or for …
Cellebrite Asks Law Enforcement Clients to Keep Its Phone Hacking Tech Secret by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Cellebrite—the Israeli digital intelligence company that provides data extraction tools for law enforcement to collect, analyze, and manage digital data—is asking its customers to keep the technology a secret. For …
FBI Searches of NSA Data Extended Until April, Despite Admission of Unconstitutionality by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso As part of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2024, signed by President Biden on December 22, 2023, Congress has extended the deadline to April 19th to fully re-authorize, …
Article • September 1, 2023 • from CLN September, 2023
Police Can Get More From Your Phone Than You May Believe by Michael Thompson by Michael Dean Thompson Most of us would feel violated to learn that our spouse or partner had been digging through our phone. Imagine if they were to use that access to determine where we have …
Police Departments’ Purchase of Tracking Tool Collecting Location Data Without a Warrant Raises Fourth Amendment Concerns by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott In July 2022, the Virginia State Police paid $15,000 to purchase a subscription from Fog Data Service for its Fog Reveal tracking tool according to ABC …
Article • November 15, 2021 • from CLN December, 2021
Filed under: Cell-Phones
How Law Enforcement Get Past Phone Encryption by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Reporting from Wired shows how researchers at Johns Hopkins University looked into vulnerabilities in Apple and Android phones and how they can be exploited by groups like law enforcement and other government actors. Cryptographers at Johns …
Article • December 15, 2020 • from CLN January, 2021
Pennsylvania Supreme Court: No Probable Cause to Search Cellphones Merely Possessed in Proximity to Drugs and Guns by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania held on October 21, 2020, that there was no probable cause to search cellphones found on someone who was found in close …
Article • November 3, 2020
Filed under: Cell-Phones
IRS May Have Obtained Phone Location Data Without Warrant by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (“TIGTA”) is expected to investigate a claim that the IRS Criminal Investigation (“CI”) unit attempted to obtain location data on suspects without first obtaining a warrant. The Supreme …
Article • September 15, 2020 • from CLN October, 2020
Filed under: Cell-Phones
Washington Federal Court: Looking at Lock Phone Screen Requires Warrant by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle ruled that the FBI conducted an illegal search of a defendant’s phone by powering it on to inspect the lock screen, resulting …
Article • September 15, 2020 • from CLN October, 2020
Filed under: Protests, Cell-Phones
Protecting Your Phone at Protests by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney As of the date of this article, protests continue against police brutality and systemic racism in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. While racism and police brutality are at least as old as America itself, Floyd’s death …
Article • August 15, 2020 • from CLN September, 2020
Indiana Supreme Court: Forcing Defendant to Unlock Smartphone Violates Fifth Amendment Right Against Self-Incrimination by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Supreme Court of Indiana held that a defendant cannot be forced to unlock her smartphone because doing so would violate her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. The Court also …
Article • June 15, 2020 • from CLN July, 2020
Filed under: Cell-Phones
Office of Homeland Security Circumventing Warrant Requirement by Buying Cellphone Location Data from Marketing Firm by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso The Office of Homeland Security (“OHS”) has been purchasing “anonymized” cellphone location data for use in Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) investigations, according to information obtained by the Wall …
Publication • 2020
Filed under: Cell-Phones
Upturn, Mass Extraction - the Widespread Power of US Law Enforcement to Search Mobile Phones, 2020 Upt~!.r.! in Technology Mass Extraction: The Widespread Power of U.S. Law Enforcement to Search Mobile Phones Logan Koepke Emma Weil Urmila Janardan Tinuola Dada Harlan Yu October 2020 Mass Extraction: The Widespread Power of …