Researcher Buys Axon Cameras On eBay, Finds They're Still Filled With Recordings
Data isn't secure just because nothing happened to it when it was still in your possession. It can still "leak" long after the storage device has gone onto its second life in someone else's hands. The...
View ArticleCourt Tosses Surreptitious Video Recordings Holding Together Sketchy 'Human...
In early 2019, law enforcement in Florida wrapped up a supposed "human trafficking" sting centering on Florida spas and massage parlors. By the time prosecutors and cops were done congratulating...
View ArticleSheriff Indicted For Evidence Tampering After Footage Of Deputies Killing An...
It's probably time for Williamson County (TX) Sheriff Robert Chody to be voted out of office. Chody presides over a sheriff's office that has generated an amazing amount of controversy in a short...
View ArticleCalifornia Court Says Wiretap Target Should Have Access To Wiretap Documents
The EFF -- representing former California Highway Patrol officer Miguel Guerrero -- has achieved a significant legal victory. The California Appeals Court has given citizens a better shot at demanding...
View ArticleTrump Campaign Gets Laughed Out Of Court For Claiming A Bunch Of Unvetted...
The Trump Campaign is back in court, hoping to reclaim a presidency Donald Trump has lost. It spent plenty of time in court prior to the election, hoping to prevent as many people as possible from...
View Article'Going Dark' Is Bullshit, Says Yet Another Report Detailing All The Ways Law...
"Going dark" is a "problem" that appears to be localized almost entirely at the federal level. While numerous options have presented themselves over the years, the FBI, DOJ, and the president's law...
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'Going Dark?': Cops Grab Vehicle Data To Identify A Murder Suspect
All the cops in the federal shops say "going dark" is a thing. Local cops have much less to say about the issue, even though they've got as much at stake. The FBI can't be trusted to count its own...
View ArticleIdentifying Insurrectionists Is Going To Be Easy -- Thanks To Social Media...
As Techdirt readers know, there's a lot of hatred for social media in some circles, and lots of lies being told about why Section 230 is to blame. Against that background, it's useful to remember...
View ArticleCops Love Body Camera Footage... When It Clears Officers Of Any Wrongdoing
Cops have a "tell." It's so obvious and yet they still pretend it isn't. Whenever something questionable goes down, all anyone has to do is ask for the recordings. If the recording exonerates cops (or...
View ArticleGun Trafficking Investigation Shows The FBI Is Still Capable Of Accessing...
It's been clear for some time that the FBI and DOJ's overly dramatic calls for encryption backdoors are unwarranted. Law enforcement still has plenty of options to deal with device encryption and...
View ArticleJudge Presiding Over Arizona Prosecution Of Backpage Denies Discovery...
Here's one more horrifying postscript to the still-ongoing criminal prosecution(s) of Backpage's executives. Courts and attorneys general (including newly installed VP Kamala Harris) tried to run the...
View ArticleCourt Tells Government It Can't Hide Behind Its Third-Party DNA Analysis...
The government says we have no right to access information about its law enforcement "means and methods." To give these secrets away is to instigate a criminal apocalypse. That's the argument the...
View ArticleDeath Row Inmate Freed After Bullshit Bite Mark Evidence Determined To Be...
The end of a crooked and corrupt era in Mississippi is still paying long-belated dividends to wrongly convicted criminals in Mississippi. The state that has defined "backwater" for so many years is...
View ArticleAfter 40 Years Of Being Wrong, Texas Rangers Finally Decide Hypnosis Isn't A...
Never let it be said that cops are not open-minded. Sure, everyone with a darker-than-white skin tone moving around in any part of the city deemed unsafe by the same people charged with keeping it...
View ArticleCop's Lies About A Traffic Stop Are Exposed By A Home Security Camera Located...
Cops lie. This is undeniable. But why do cops lie? There seems to be little reason for it. Qualified immunity protects them against all but their most egregious rights violations. Internal...
View ArticleEFF Tells Court Defendants Must Be Allowed To Examine The DNA Software Used...
A proper adversarial system means the accused can confront the accuser. But that's rarely the case when crime solving software is involved. The FBI doesn't allow accused child porn downloaders to...
View ArticleMan Sues After Field Drug Test Says His Daughter's Ashes Are Meth And Ecstasy
Cops like cheap field drug tests. They don't like them because they're accurate. They like them because they're cheap. And since you get what you pay for, they're way cheaper (in the long run) then...
View ArticleStudy Shows Blood Pattern Analysis Is Just More Guesswork Posing As...
Another form of evidence used in criminal cases is being called into question. The latest (via CJ Ciaramella) to receive the dubious honor of being designated "dubious" is blood spatter analysis. This...
View ArticleUsing The George Floyd Protests As An Excuse, Minneapolis Police Destroyed...
Immediately following the murder of George Floyd by former-officer and current-convict Derek Chauvin, Minneapolis burned. Literally. Unchecked violence by cops provoked violence by some city...
View ArticleCourt Slaps Down Ajit Pai's Lazy FCC Ruling On 5G Safety, Likely Fueling...
To be clear, there's absolutely no evidence that 5G wireless technology poses a meaningful impact to human health. Most of the conspiracy theorists that claim otherwise have a head full of pebbles,...
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