Daily Archives: November 19, 2019

Courthouse News: Judge Rules FBI Cannot Hide Use of Social Media Surveillance Tools

Courthouse News: Judge Rules FBI Cannot Hide Use of Social Media Surveillance Tools by Nicholas Iovino (“The FBI cannot hide whether it uses powerful surveillance tools to monitor the social-media activity of millions of Americans and noncitizens, a federal judge … Continue reading

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NY4: Summary judgment on false arrest and excessive force claim without considering officers’ testimony in underlying criminal trial was error

Summary judgment against the defendants for false arrest and excessive force was improperly granted without considering the transcript of plaintiff’s criminal trial and the officers’ testimony there. Hernandez v Denny’s Corp., 2019 NY Slip Op 08302, 2019 N.Y. App. Div. … Continue reading

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WA: Affidavit and SW didn’t need to specify statutes of crimes under investigation when it was apparent it was murder

The search warrant of defendant’s place for trace evidence of a dead body rather than the body itself was reasonable because the police had information that the body had been burned in a fire pit. In addition, the affidavit and … Continue reading

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USA Today: Facial recognition: The fight over the use of our faces is far from over

USA Today: Facial recognition: The fight over the use of our faces is far from over by Terry Collins:

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E.D.Tenn.: Facebook photo of def felon with a firearm apparently taken in a home justified a SW for his home

Defendant’s alleged threat on Facebook involving use of firearms, along with a picture of a firearm suggested it was in a home. The search warrant of defendant’s home was with probable cause. Defendant’s effort to “dissect” the affidavit paragraph by … Continue reading

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