Devlin Barrett and Emily Davies of The Washington Post report: New, faster phone-cracking technology was used to access the phone of the Trump rally gunman, according to people familiar with the investigation who described the ongoing race to find any clues to the 20-year-old’s motive for trying to kill the former president. Officials said Monday…
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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…
Abortion restrictions harm mental health, with low-income women hardest hit
Abortion-rights supporters line up at a busy intersection in Scottsdale, Ariz. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images Brad Greenwood, George Mason University; Gordon Burtch, Boston University, and Michaela R. Anderson, University of Pennsylvania People living in states that enacted tighter abortion restrictions in the wake of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision, which returned…
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…