Daily Archives: June 12, 2019

WaPo: Perspective: Don’t smile for surveillance: Why airport face scans are a privacy trap

WaPo: Perspective: Don’t smile for surveillance: Why airport face scans are a privacy trap by Geoffrey A. Fowler: Facial-recognition technology is un proven and largely unregulated — yet it is already arriving at airports all over the United States. At … Continue reading

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Courthouse News Service: California Democrats Push to Ban Facial Recognition Tech

Courthouse News Service: California Democrats Push to Ban Facial Recognition Tech: The dispute intensified Tuesday as California Democrats voted to prohibit the use of facial recognition in body cameras, setting the proposed ban up for a final vote on the … Continue reading

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The Recorder: Amazon’s Alexa Devices Violate Children’s Privacy, Class Actions Say

The Recorder: Amazon’s Alexa Devices Violate Children’s Privacy, Class Actions Say by Amanda Bronstad: A pair of class actions seek statutory damages on behalf of children in nine states whose conversations were recorded by an Alexa-enabled device, like Echo and … Continue reading

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CA8: Hotel staff photographed evidence of drug use in room which corroborated CI

The information in the search warrant application was sufficient to show a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime would be found in a hotel room registered to a known drug user who had recently tested positive for … Continue reading

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Cal.4: Anticipating that def would drive without headlights isn’t RS for a stop

Defendant was stopped for being parked with only foglights on, the officer thinking that he was about to drive without headlights on, but the stop wasn’t justified. (A kind of anticipatory reasonable suspicion.) People v. Kidd, 2019 Cal. App. LEXIS … Continue reading

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W.D.Wash.: A potential claim of excessive force during a search doesn’t justify discovery of other alleged incidents of excessive force during searches

Defendant plans a suppression motion claiming that the search was invalid for use of excessive force during the search. He seeks discovery of other allegations of excessive force during searches by the officers, and it’s denied as speculative. United States … Continue reading

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S.D.Fla.: Waving a gun at a crowd is PC for assault

Defendant’s waving a gun at a crowd was probable cause, and it was on video. United States v. Leonard, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 97917 (S.D. Fla. June 11, 2019).* “The defendants have not shown that Det. Miller was reckless or … Continue reading

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CO: Law of the case doesn’t bar consideration of undecided arguments to support a search

Law of the case isn’t always completely binding but usually is, and it certainly permits the trial court to consider other issues not decided in the original appeal against suppression of the evidence. People v. Morehead, 2019 CO 48, 2019 … Continue reading

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OH12: Automobile exception search permits search of locked toolbox

With a dog alert on a car, the search of a locked toolbox under the automobile exception was permissible. State v. Sullivan, 2019-Ohio-2279, 2019 Ohio App. LEXIS 2372 (12th Dist. June 10, 2019). Exigent circumstances could not be used to … Continue reading

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Reason: The Costs of Monitoring Your Prescriptions

Reason: The Costs of Monitoring Your Prescriptions by Jackob Sullum: State databases that track the medications we take invade our privacy without reducing opioid-related deaths.

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