Daily Archives: June 9, 2019

Boston Globe: Top court in Mass. to review controversial technology police use to track cars

Boston Globe: Top court in Mass. to review controversial technology police use to track cars by Matt Rocheleau: Massachusetts’ highest court will soon review the legality of controversial surveillance technology that state and local law enforcement use to track vehicles … Continue reading

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Engadget: Microsoft discreetly wiped its massive facial recognition database

Engadget: Microsoft discreetly wiped its massive facial recognition database by Rachel England: The database was originally published in 2016, described by Microsoft as the largest publicly available facial recognition data set in the world, and used to train facial recognition … Continue reading

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WaPo: Opinion: D.C. police must stop hiding body camera footage

WaPo: Opinion: D.C. police must stop hiding body camera footage: The city should promote transparency by giving families immediate access to videos of their loved ones’ killings.

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IA: Def’s prior stashing of burglary proceeds at home was nexus in this SW application

Nexus was shown to the house searched because defendant was known to have stashed burglary proceeds there before. [A good lack of standing argument could have been made and was unnecessary.] State v. Adams, 2019 Iowa App. LEXIS 574 (June … Continue reading

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TX3: Def retained a REP in a hotel room he was evicted from because he wasn’t aware of consequences

Defendant still had a reasonable expectation of privacy in his hotel room when he was evicted by police for violating policy, but there was no showing that he knew the consequences of violating policy. Smoking marijuana in a hotel room … Continue reading

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W.D.La.: Def didn’t have a REP in a friend’s carport visible from the street when police saw him

Defendant was on the carport of a house, and he was mistaken for a wanted person. It was not unconstitutional for officers to tell him to put his hands on his head for safety reasons. Officers came in and he … Continue reading

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