Daily Archives: May 15, 2018

ZDNet: US cell carriers are selling access to your real-time phone location data

ZDNet: US cell carriers are selling access to your real-time phone location data by Zack Whittaker: LocationSmart, a California-based technology company, is one of a handful of so-called data aggregators. It claimed to have ‘direct connections’ to cell carrier networks … Continue reading

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CA9: Search of car could not be sustained as inventory since there was an admitted-evidence gathering motive

The inventory here was to conduct a criminal search of the car, and it is suppressed. Officers timed the arrest when defendant was in the car [allegedly] to minimize safety concerns. They admittedly were searching for criminal evidence, and not … Continue reading

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E.D.Mich.: Def was essentially and admittedly an “innocent bystander” at the place searched and had no standing

This defendant had no standing in the condo that was searched under a search warrant. He produced nothing to show that he had any connection to the property or was a guest with a connection to the premises, even an … Continue reading

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Daily Beast: Justices Thomas and Gorsuch Just Hinted They Would End Privacy as We Know It

Daily Beast: Justices Thomas and Gorsuch Just Hinted They Would End Privacy as We Know It by Jay Michaelson: President Trump’s addition to the Supreme Court sides with the bench’s ‘originalist’—and it has terrifying implications for your rights. Because privacy … Continue reading

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