Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Evidence (OSAC) is developing documentary standards for each forensic discipline. Standards under consideration as well as approved standards are available in the OSAC Registry.
Digital Evidence
Serial Killers Should Fear This Algorithm
Miami man faced 20 years until he watched video of the crime and saw his brother’s face
Secret Service Latest To Use Data Brokers To Dodge Warrant Requirements For Cell Site Location Data
License plate tracking for police set to go nationwide
How Your Phone Is Used to Track You, and What You Can Do About It
NACDL free live webinar: Surveilled Without a Trace – Challenging Digital Evidence Obtained Through RoundUp and Torrential Downpour in Criminal Cases
Offered by NACDL. Presented by Mohammad Ali Hamoudi, Jeff Fischbach, and Robert Herz.
Free NACDL webinars on digital evidence
On Tuesday, August 11, 2020, NACDL and the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic are presenting two free CLE webinars: At 11:00am EST: “Policing the Police: Using Police Technologies to Uncover Law Enforcement Misconduct in Criminal Cases” with Debbie Levi, Director of Special Litigation with the Baltimore City Public Defender, and Ivan Bates, Managing …
NACDL free live webinar: Policing the Police
Offered by NACDL. Presenters: Debbie Levi and Ivan Bates.
Webinar – Likes, Posts and Shares: When the Government uses Social Media to Prosecute Your Client
This NACDL free live webinar is being offered in Aug. 6, 2020 at 3:00 pm. It is open to NACDL members and non-members. The webinar will cover how defense attorneys can challenge the use of social media evidence in criminal cases, as courts continue to grapple with the constitutionality and scope of the Stored Communications …
Webinar – Likes, Posts and Shares: When the Government uses Social Media to Prosecute Your Client
Presenter: Hanni Fakhoury and Rachel Levinson-Waldman. Offered by NACDL on Aug. 6, 2020.
NIST Launches Investigation of Face Masks’ Effect on Face Recognition Software
Upcoming Webinar – (Mis)identified: The Challenges of Identifying & Litigating Facial Recognition Technology in Criminal Cases
Police departments, federal agencies, and technology companies across the country are seeing revived scrutiny of facial recognition technology, which is capable of identifying people, sometimes without their knowledge or consent. Research has repeatedly demonstrated that some facial recognition systems perform differently depending on race and gender, and the use of such technology is not always …
The Electronic Frontier Foundation Launches the Atlas of Surveillance
On Monday, July 13th, the Electronic Frontier Foundation put out a press release (available here) announcing the launch of their Atlas of Surveillance. The Atlas, created in partnership with the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno, is a searchable database of the specific surveillance technology law enforcement agencies across the country …
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Electronic Frontier Foundation Atlas of Surveillance
A searchable database, created by the Electronic Frontier Foundation in partnership with the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno, on the surveillance technologies in use in jurisdictions across the country. The site also contains a glossary with a brief descriptions of each surveillance method listed in the database.
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