{"id":22510,"date":"2016-06-09T20:04:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T01:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=22510"},"modified":"2016-06-09T20:04:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T01:04:53","slug":"nacdl-symposium-report-the-fourth-amendment-in-the-digital-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=22510","title":{"rendered":"NACDL: Symposium Report: The Fourth Amendment in the Digital Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NACDL: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nacdl.org\/fourth_amendment_digital_age_release\/\">Symposium Report: The Fourth Amendment in the Digital Age<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Washington, DC (June 8, 2016) &#8212; The Fourth Amendment has entered the digital age. New surveillance technologies and programs \u2014 from GPS tracking devices to automated license plate readers to bulk data collection \u2014 have upended traditional law enforcement practices and created new challenges for defense lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>To address the new threats to privacy posed by the digital age, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), the Foundation for Criminal Justice, the American University Washington College of Law, and the Criminal Law Practitioner presented a symposium entitled &#8220;The Fourth Amendment in the Digital Age.&#8221; Criminal law practitioners, scholars, and technology experts discussed how digital searches, government surveillance programs, and new technologies are impacting Fourth Amendment protections in criminal cases as well as litigation strategies to challenge these developing threats to privacy. This report, prepared by University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law Professor Andrew G. Ferguson, offers an overview of the symposium and the substantive areas of concern related to new technological and legal changes that impact privacy in the digital age. In addition, the report offers detailed recommendations concerning legal strategy, public education, legislative advocacy, and policy in this area.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NACDL: Symposium Report: The Fourth Amendment in the Digital Age: Washington, DC (June 8, 2016) &#8212; The Fourth Amendment has entered the digital age. New surveillance technologies and programs \u2014 from GPS tracking devices to automated license plate readers to &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=22510\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22511,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22510\/revisions\/22511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}