It has been reported that Presidential spokesperson Sean Spicer called an emergency meeting of his staff to hunt for leaks. At that meeting, reportedly approved by and supervised by White House counsel, Spicer demanded that the staffers produce their cell phones (government and personal) for examination to determine whether or not they were the leakers,…
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Earlier, I wrote about the efforts by the Bentonville, Arkansas police department to compel Amazon to produce – by search warrant issued by an Arkansas judge – the contents of conversations that either the perpetrator or victim of a murder might have had in the presence of an Amazon Echo. I’ve also written generally about…
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It sounds like a classic law school exam question. A border patrol agent in the United States, without adequate provocation or justification, fires a shot across the Mexican border, hitting an innocent Mexican teenager in the head – killing him. Does the family of the deceased have any recourse in the U.S. courts, specifically under…
DetailsWhen Walter Ackerman sent an email from his AOL account to someone else, it never arrived. It never arrived because AOL’s computers examined the contents of the email, using an MD5 hash function, and determined that one of the attachments’ electronic signature matched that of suspected child pornography contained in a database maintained by the…
DetailsPresident Trump is slated to issue two Executive Orders this week which may relate to the ability of the nation to defend itself (and its critical infrastructure) from potential cyberattacks. The first is the President’s Executive order on cybersecurity. The second is the Executive Order on Regulatio. It may be that these orders work contrary to each other in practice. We will…
DetailsA recent report has indicated that police have subpoenaed records from Amazon to get the cloud stored audio files from an Amazon Echo to help solve a murder case. This points out a disturbing trend in privacy. It’s not that the government is surveilling us. It’s that we are surveilling ourselves in newer and more…
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