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Computer Forensics, Privacy & the Law

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U.S. Supreme Court to Decide if Employee Texts Are Private

Posted by: Frederick Lane on 08 January 2010

Tagged in: workplace forensics , U.S. Supreme Court , U.S. Court of Appeals (9th Circuit) , text message(s) , sexting , mobile forensics , law enforcement agents

Later this spring, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case, Ontario v. Quon, with potentially broad implications for the nation's increasingly text-addicted workforce. At issue is whether an employee has a privacy interest in the contents of personal text messages sent using employer equipment.

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Diary of an Entrapment? Vanity Fair Studies a Sexual Predator Case

Posted by: Frederick Lane on 27 December 2009

Tagged in: sexual assault , screen name(s) , police procedure , law enforcement agents , instant messaging , criminal , chat room(s)

In the December 2009 issue of Vanity Fair, contributing editor Mark Bowden takes a close look at an Internet sexual predator case and raises some interesting questions about police investigative procedures.

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Perils of the Job: Child Pornography Charges Filed Against Adams Police Officer

Posted by: Frederick Lane on 03 November 2009

Tagged in: video(s) , photographs , peer-to-peer software , Massachusetts , LimeWire , law enforcement agents , forensic labs , criminal , child pornography

When the Berkshire County District Attorney's office in western Massachusetts loaded a CD of larceny evidence onto its computer, it found more than it expected: a computer file folder with 153 images of child pornography, as well as photos and a video of a male masturbating in front of a computer. The room in the video was one the district attorney had seen before: the evidence room at the Adams Police Department.

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