With more employers monitoring workers with cameras and GPS trackers, federal regulators and states have taken steps to strengthen employee privacy rights. […]
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Court mistake leads to release of texts from Rep. Scott Perry’s seized phone
Congressman Perry had fought to keep prosecutors from accessing the phone. He spoke to CBS 21 a week after the seizure, and said that he did nothing wrong. […]
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Phone data used to establish timeline, locations; childhood friend of Paul Murdaugh testifies
Towers are separated into 3 sectors; records show tower number and tower sector; and then azimuth and direction of the antenna. From collected data, Wilde was able to create a map of coverage. Another set of records – Verizon RTT records – are an estimation of distance between phone and tower at time of call. All of the data combined shows a cell phone’s location at specific times and the towers and antennas used to transmit calls. […]
Dallas police may be violating evidence laws with 52,000 improperly stored digital files
The city’s storage system for police files came under scrutiny in August 2021, when lawyers were alarmed to learn that a city information technology employee lost millions of police files including videos and audio recordings when he improperly moved evidence between systems. […]
N.J. going after ‘sextortion’ as parents sound alarm on predators who target minors on social media
Long gone are the times when law enforcement would simply warn parents of dangerous people on the street. From online video games to every other app that connects to the world, people on the hunt to sextort victims lurk under bogus usernames and identities. […]
Cell Site Analysis Being Used in the Murder Trial of Riley Crossman
On the fifth day of the trial against Andrew McCauley Jr., the prosecution called an FBI special agent who is a member of the Cellular Analysis Survey Team, or CAST, to testify. In his testimony, he stated many of McCauley’s claims do not match up with his cell phone records. […]
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GPS Monitoring Queensland Youth Offenders
Queensland parliament has voted down a motion by the Greens regarding the use of GPS monitoring devices for youth offenders, after only one was fitted since the controversial trial began in May. […]
Social Media Timeline of Gabby Petito
Eleven days into the search for missing travel blogger Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito, authorities reported Tuesday that human remains recovered two days prior at a national park in Wyoming had been positively identified as Petito and that she had died as a result of homicide. […]
EncroChat: Appeal court finds ‘digital phone tapping’ admissible in criminal trials
Judges have decided that communications collected by French and Dutch police from the encrypted phone network EncroChat using software “implants” are admissible evidence in British courts. […]
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Berkeley Law creates protocol to use social media as evidence for war crimes
A three-year joint effort by Berkeley Law’s Human Rights Center (HRC) and the U.N. Human Rights Office, the Protocol marks the first global guidelines for using publicly available information online – including photos, videos, and other content posted to social media sites – as evidence in international criminal and human rights investigations. […]
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