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First amendment issues with the Amazon Alexa

How technology influences our lives and infringes on our rights is a question that courts across the county struggle to answer.  In Bentonville, Arkansas, the court was asked to decide whether Amazon had to turn over recordings from the Amazon Echo device located in the home of James Bates…

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Is your fingerprint the golden ticket for police?

In 2014, a small circuit court judge in Virginia Beach issued a decision which is quickly being adopted by courts across the country. The defendant, Charles Baust, was accused of assaulting and strangling his girlfriend. The girlfriend told police that Baust had a video recorder in the room where the assault took place and that the images were relayed to Baust’s cellphone…

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