The former Senior Manager of Special Operations for eBay’s Global Security Team was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for his role in a cyberstalking campaign targeting a Massachusetts couple. The defendant and his co-conspirators harassed and intimidated the victims in retaliation for their publication of an industry newsletter that eBay executives viewed as…
Category: Court
Detroit Takes Important Step in Curbing the Harms of Face Recognition Technology
Tori Noble writes: In a first-of-its-kind agreement, the Detroit Police Department recently agreed to adopt strict limits on its officers’ use of face recognition technology as part of a settlement in a lawsuit brought by a victim of this faulty technology. Robert Williams, a Black resident of a Detroit suburb, filed suit against the Detroit Police Department…
No reasonable expectation of privacy in one’s Google location data
Seen at FourthAmendment.com: There is no reasonable expectation of privacy in one’s Google location data. It’s willingly shared with Google. United States v. Chatrie, 2024 U.S. App. LEXIS 16692 (4th Cir. July 9, 2024) (2-1): Location History is turned off by default, so a user must take several affirmative steps before Google begins tracking and storing…
Geofence Warrant Decision Exposes Hole in Fourth Amendment Law
Cassandre Coyer and Tonya Riley report: A split appeals court opinion clearing the government’s acquisition of users’ mobile-device location data from Google of constitutional scrutiny will likely spark more friction between emerging technologies and the scope of law enforcement searches, attorneys warned. The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit’s ruling in US v. Chatrie concluded, over a…