Privacy

Security Congress Abstract

From Katz to Carpenter: How SCOTUS Views Evolving Technology and Privacy

Speaker(s)

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  Herbert Joe

  Managing Partner/Attorney/Cert. Forensic Consultant
  Yonovitz & Joe, L.L.P.

Advances in the sciences, especially coming from Silicon Valley, continually yield new, novel and high technology and proprietary information, most of which have significant legal ramifications. But laws are slow to change, and rarely keep pace with such rapidly evolving technology. Examples include Frye vs. U.S. (polygraph machine), Katz vs. U.S. (recording devices), Kyllo vs. U.S. (thermal imaging devices), U.S. vs. Jones (2015; GPS tracking devices), U.S. vs. Wurie and Riley vs. California (2014; cell phone searches), U.S. vs. Carpenter (cell phone records), the CLOUD Act, etc. This session reviews select federal appellate and landmark SCOTUS cases, and the legal and practical ramifications that affect every one of us on a daily basis.

 

Learning Objectives:

• Gain a better appreciation of how federal appellate courts and the U.S. Supreme Court have been analyzing evolving technology.
• Understand and appreciate how our rights, especially our fundamental Fourth Amendment privacy rights, have been affected through case law and legislation.