A draft report by a presidential advisory council is raising questions about the scientific validity of many kinds of forensic analysis routinely used in criminal trials, according to a newspaper…
A federal appeals court is allowing a lawsuit that claims the maker of WebWatcher spyware violates federal and Ohio wiretap laws, as well as a common law right to privacy
Employers are outfitting workers with wearable technology to track inventory, map routes through warehouses, monitor employee interactions, and keep truck drivers awake.
But lawyers see potential legal complications as wearable…
You’re unlikely to be able to buy your own completely automated driverless car in the next few years, ABA members learned Friday afternoon. But participants at “Driverless Cars in…
A federal judge in San Francisco has refused to admit as evidence more than 200 hours of audio recordings collected by FBI bugging devices placed outside the courthouse in San…
The New Jersey Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether police have to supply an open-government activist with logs of emails under the state’s public records law.
Emails of a Microsoft customer that are stored exclusively on a server in Ireland are beyond the reach of domestic search warrants issued under a 1986 federal law, a federal…
A federal judge in Manhattan has suppressed narcotics evidence because the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration didn’t get a warrant to use a cellphone tracking device that led them to the…
Hacking is so prevalent that a man charged with child pornography had no expectation of privacy for his home computer’s identifying information, a federal judge in Virginia ruled late last…
Two years ago, Baltimore police obtained a warrant to arrest Kerron Andrews for attempted murder. Unable to find him at home, detectives contacted Andrews' cellphone carrier to track down the…
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The StingRay collects cellphone identification data by pretending to be a cell tower. AP Images.
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Self-driving cars, equipped with artificial intelligence, can perhaps make ethical decisions in the face of an accident, but the outcome could be strongly influenced by opinions of engineers who wrote…
When Risa Levine, a real estate attorney in New York City, got married, she wanted nothing more than to have a baby. Her husband at the time also wanted a…
A federal jury in San Francisco ruled for Google on Thursday in a suit alleging the company violated Oracle’s copyright by using Java software code to allow software developers to…
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