Constitutional LawFeaturedPrivacy
October 1, 2026By Marcela Rivera
Over the span of 667 days, Florida police officer Christopher Goodson used law-enforcement resources to search his estranged wife’s license plate 717 times.[i] From September 1, 2024, to June 30, 2026, Officer Goodson employed the help of the increasingly controversial automated license plate recognition system (“ALPR”), Flock Safety, to track where and when her vehicle […]
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Criminal ProcedureFeaturedFourth AmendmentPrivacy
March 20, 2026By Maxwell Gregg
The Supreme Court has agreed to determine the legality of a new type of warrant: the geofence warrant.[i] A geofence warrant allows law enforcement to identify which cellphones were in a particular area at the time of a particular crime.[ii] For example, police have issued geofence warrants to determine which phones were within a certain […]
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March 18, 2026By Amanda Alfonso
The Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”) was enacted in 1988, in an era of Blockbusters and video home system tapes.[i] Just a few months prior to its enactment, Judge Robert Bork was under consideration for the United States Supreme Court.[ii] During his nomination hearings, a local D.C. video store disclosed a list of Judge Bork’s […]
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FeaturedPrivacy
February 16, 2026By Bar Sadeh
Most people today do not just leave behind a house or a bank account when they die. They leave phones full of photos, email accounts, online subscriptions, cloud storage, social media, and sometimes even digital money.[i] The problem today is that when someone dies, access to all of that often dies with them. Families now […]
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