In 2013, Camden County, New Jersey, police started using the gunshot detection technology ShotSpotter. The way Dan Keashen, spokesman for the department, tells it, the tool had an immediate impact.
Dec 1, 2016 3:00 AM CST
Keith Porcaro, the general counsel of Social Impact Lab, a technology consultancy nonprofit in D.C., thinks there are other ways to get private data. ABA file photo by Al Drago.
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Residue that clings to cellphones can be reveal a lot about a person, according to a study funded by the National Institute of Justice.
Molecules on cellphones can reveal information…
Nov 16, 2016 7:00 AM CST
A program that certifies lawyers as privacy law specialists is expected to go before the ABA House of Delegates in February.
The International Association of Privacy Professionals administers the certification…
Nov 15, 2016 11:01 AM CST
Corrected: Gawker Media has agreed to pay at least $31 million to settle a privacy invasion case filed by Hulk Hogan over publication of a sex video.
The monetary amount…
Nov 2, 2016 12:55 PM CDT
An AARP lawsuit claims new regulations governing workplace wellness programs violate laws barring genetic and disability discrimination.
The AARP suit (PDF) filed on Monday challenges the rules issued by…
Oct 26, 2016 11:04 AM CDT
Facial-recognition databases used by law enforcement—which reportedly include photos of approximately 117 million Americans—have various accuracy problems, according to a report by Georgetown University Law Center’s Center on Privacy &…
Oct 25, 2016 11:45 AM CDT
The ex-wife of convicted Subway pitchman Jared Fogle filed a lawsuit Monday contending she would never had married him if the company had reported his sexual interest in minors.
The…
Oct 25, 2016 8:00 AM CDT
A superior court judge in San Francisco has tossed a lawsuit that claimed an open-air pissoir in a city park was a public nuisance that violated the right to privacy.
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Oct 11, 2016 8:00 AM CDT
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has asked lawyers to investigate and report back to him on how a redacted detail in a lawsuit was published on CourtListener.com.
U.S. District…
Oct 7, 2016 8:00 AM CDT
A secret warrant reportedly issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court last year authorized Yahoo scans of emails for specific information requested by the U.S. government, according to two anonymous…
Oct 6, 2016 9:47 AM CDT
Panelists for the CLE discussion had a lot of warnings about security and liability.
Oct 1, 2016 1:10 AM CDT
Police officers accessed confidential databases for improper purposes hundreds of times over a two-year period, according to an Associated Press investigation.
No agency keeps track of such abuses, the Sep 29, 2016 7:00 AM CDT
A case pending in the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals could give the green light to police who want to use parking infractions as a justification for car…
Sep 26, 2016 7:45 AM CDT
The five teenage boys were sitting in a parked car in a gated community in Melbourne, Florida, when a police officer pulled up behind them.
Officer Justin Valutsky closed one…
Sep 14, 2016 11:30 AM CDT
Federal trial courts differ on whether the FBI placing malware on private computers amounts to a search, and although a Texas judge recently found that it did, he denied the…
Sep 12, 2016 3:00 PM CDT