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. […]

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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. […]

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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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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. […]

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EncroChat: Appeal court finds ‘digital phone tapping’ admissible in criminal trials

EncroChat

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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Insecure wheels: Police turn to car data to destroy suspects’ alibis

The infotainment system records recent destinations, call logs, contact lists, text messages, emails, pictures, videos, web histories, voice commands and social media feeds. It can also keep track of the phones that have been connected to the vehicle via USB cable or Bluetooth, as well as all the apps installed on the device. […]

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FBI Used Cellular Data To Track Ghislaine Maxwell To Phone Account ‘G Max’ And New Hampshire Hideout

Newly unsealed court documents have reportedly revealed that cellphone data led federal authorities to Ghislaine Maxwell’s secret New England hideout, where she had fled after the arrest of her friend and confidant Jeffrey Epstein. […]

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Defense wants car’s computer evidence thrown out from deadly Bayshore Florida car crash case

Attorneys for the two teens accused of drag racing on Bayshore Boulevard and killing a mother and daughter are trying to get key evidence thrown out. […]

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