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8 posts published by Tim Cushing, Mike Masnick, Karl Bode, and Gretchen Heckmann on December 2, 2022

Geofence warrants are popular. They're also controversial. Cops have discovered Google houses plenty of location data. Going to cell phone providers is a bit tricky, thanks to the Supreme Court's Carpenter decision, which erected a warrant requirement for acquiring weeks or months of location data. But geofence warrants don't have a particular target. The only…

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Cops gonna cop, as Rachel Cheung reports for Vice. Hundreds of police officers in Hong Kong improperly accessed a woman’s case file after she was arrested for allegedly having sex on the balcony of a high-rise residential building, local media reported this week. A clip that showed a naked couple fornicating on the balcony of…

Posts about january 6 written by Tim Cushing and Techdirt

Denying qualified immunity to law enforcement officers who violate rights is a rarity. It doesn't mean the sued cops lose. It just means they can't dismiss the lawsuit. In theory, that means officers alleged to have violated rights will now make their case in front of a jury. But a cop facing a jury is…

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We should always be wary when a government entity charged with ending [insert issue here] declares said issue ended. We should be doubly wary when a Chinese government agency says anything about anything. So, it's with a huge amount of skepticism that we greet this announcement by a Chinese regulator, which claims the thing it's…