Sweeping Legislation Aims to Ban the Sale of Location DataRead More
Digital Evidence
Geofence Warrant Primer
5-page primer from NACDL’s Fourth Amendment Center that prepares attorneys to litigate a motion to suppress a geofence warrant.
Expert assistance from Envista Forensics now available through Expert Services Project
We want court appointed attorneys to use experts, and we want using experts to be easier for attorneys. Access to qualified expert services is essential to the provision of indigent defense. To better equip the North Carolina public defense community with the resources it needs to achieve fair and just outcomes for clients, Indigent Defense …
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Results from a Black-Box Study for Digital Forensic Examiners
In Feb. 2022, NIST published the results of a study that looked at outcomes of mock mobile and hard-drive examinations by digital forensic examiners. 394 individuals registered for the mobile test, and 77 participants completed the mobile case study. 450 individuals registered for the hard-drive test and 102 participants completed the hard drive case study. …
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The Fourth Amendment and Geofence Warrants: A Critical Look at United States v. Chatrie
US v. Chatrie
EDVA decision holding a geofence warrant was unconstitutional.
Geofence warrant was unconstitutional
On Mar. 4, 2022, a federal judge ruled that use of geofence data in a Virginia case violated the Fourth Amendment. The decision in US v. Chatrie is available here. A geofence is law enforcement use of Google location data to find people who were near a crime scene. Geofence searches have been used in …