SCOTUS

SCOTUS: Police Need A Warrant to Search Cellphones

Posted on June 26, 2014March 23, 2016

In August, 2013, I blogged about an insurance company’s latest product feature that enabled their customers to download all of their insurance verification documents to their cellphone through a software application. The marketing company devised a commercial whereby a pig driving a car was pulled over, and subsequently the pig handed his cellphone over to […]

Data Security & Privacy

Ninth Circuit: Warrantless Forensic Examination of Electronic Data Must Meet 4th Amendment Requirements

Posted on March 27, 2013March 23, 2016

Earlier this month, March 8, 2013, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals issued a ruling related to the warrantless forensic examination of electronic data on a laptop that was seized at the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona (U.S. v. Cotterman, No. 09-10139). The fallout from the U.S. v. Cotterman ruling is significant in that, going forward, law […]