Single-Pixel Tracker Leads Paranoid Turkish Authorities To Wrongly Accuse...
We've written many articles about the thin-skinned Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and his massive crackdown on opponents, real or imagined, following the failed coup attempt in 2016. Boing...
View ArticleHow Trump's Lawyer's Silly Lawsuit Against Buzzfeed May Free Stormy Daniels...
We've written about Trump's long-term personal lawyer Michael Cohen a few times before. The first time was back in 2015 when he made a particularly stupid threat against reporters for reporting on...
View ArticleInnocent Man Charged With Murder Because His DNA Was Found On The Fingernails...
The forensic use of DNA is rightly regarded as one of the most reliable ways of establishing the identity of someone who was present at a crime scene. As technology has advanced, it is possible to use...
View ArticlePolice Use Genealogy Site To Locate Murder Suspect They'd Been Hunting For...
DNA isn't the perfect forensic tool, but it's slightly preferable to the body of junk science prosecutors use to lock people up. It's ability to pinpoint individuals is overstated, and the possibility...
View ArticleCourt Says Gov't Can't Claim Testimony That Undermines Its Criminal Case Is...
The government rarely likes to play fair in court. This is why we have the (repeatedly-violated) Brady rule (which forces the production of exonerative evidence) and other precedential decisions to...
View ArticleLatest Privacy Fracas Drops Facebook In The Middle Of Anti-Huawei Hysteria
Facebook is under fire yet again for potentially being far too casual in its treatment of private consumer data. Earlier this week, the New York Times issued a report noting that Facebook had struck...
View ArticleImportant Appeals Court Ruling States Clearly That Merely Having An IP...
Tons of copyright lawsuits (and even more copyright trolling shakedowns that never even reach court) are based on one single bit of data: the IP address. We've seen numerous district courts reject...
View ArticleCalifornia Police Officers Used Self-Destructing Messaging App For Years
The Long Beach Police Department has bravely struck a blow against police accountability. An investigation by Al Jazeera uncovered use of self-deleting messaging by the department. Current and former...
View ArticleStudy Buried For Four Years Shows Crime Lab DNA Testing Is Severely Flawed
DNA is supposed to be the gold standard of evidence. Supposedly so distinct it would be impossible to convict the wrong person, yet DNA evidence has been given far more credit than it's earned. Part...
View ArticleNPR Posits Nazis Are Recruiting All Of Our Children In Online Games With Very...
At this point, journalistic handwringing over the assumed dangers of video games has moved beyond annoyance levels and into the trope category. Violence, aggression, becoming sedentary, and the...
View ArticleProsecutors Charge Suspect With Evidence Tampering After A Seized iPhone Is...
Going on little more than their belief a phone may contain evidence in a drive-by shooting case, prosecutors in Schenectady, New York are charging a suspect with destroying evidence. A cellphone...
View ArticleHomicide, Sexual Assault Cases On The Line After Crime Lab Discovers Tech...
When life and liberty are on the line, law enforcement lab techs are there to turn hard science into a roulette wheel. Once you get past the fact that a lot of forensic investigative techniques are...
View ArticleAtlanta Prosecutor Sues DOJ For Blocking Investigation Of Incident Where Cops...
A case that involves some shocking numbers has resulted in a lawsuit against the DOJ. An investigation into a raid that ended with law enforcement officers putting 59 bullets into the body of an...
View ArticleGovernment Tossing Child Porn Cases Rather Than Discuss Its Torrent-Tracking...
The federal government isn't done tossing cases rather than let defendants have access to slightly more level playing field. A new investigation by ProPublica has uncovered more dismissed prosecutions...
View ArticleTrump's Chinese Telecom Protectionism Always Seems To Be Lacking Evidence
If you hadn't noticed by now, the Trump administration has made blacklisting Chinese telecom companies one of its top priorities. That's been most notably exemplified by the administration's attacks...
View ArticleStudy: The 'War On Cops' Is Pure Bullshit
The "War on Cops" is a belief system that's currently being preached to the converted. Evidence abounds that it's safer to be a cop now than it's ever been, and yet, officers still claim they're being...
View ArticleFlip Side To 'Stopping' Terrorist Content Online: Facebook Is Deleting...
Just last week, we talked about the new Christchurch Call, and how a bunch of governments and social media companies have made some vague agreements to try to limit and take down "extremist" content....
View ArticleLatest Huawei 'Smoking Gun' Still Doesn't Prove Global Blackball Effort's...
We've noted a few times now how the protectionist assault against Huawei hasn't been supported by much in the way of public evidence. As in, despite widespread allegations that Huawei helps China spy...
View ArticleFCC Forgets About, Then Dismisses, Complaint Detailing Verizon's Long History...
So a few years ago we wrote about Alex Nguyen, one of the only folks to file a formal net neutrality complaint (pdf) with the FCC. Before the rules were killed, users could file a free complaint, of...
View ArticleFederal Elections Committee Chair Is Sick Of Donald Trump's Bullshit: Put Up...
Just days after the two Republican members of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) blocked an investigation into the NRA and its use of Russian funds to influence the election, the chair of the FEC...
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