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Surveillance for Sale: The Data Broker Loophole and the Fourth Amendment After Chatrie

by Richard Resch

Jake Laperruque of the Center for Democracy and Technology offered a blunt analogy in a March 2026 NPR interview. Imagine the police want to search your home but lack a warrant. Instead of going to a judge, they hand your landlord a hundred dollars for …

Your DNA Was at the Scene, But You Weren’t: How Touch DNA Is Convicting the Innocent

The Gold Standard That Isn’t

On the night of November 29, 2012, a group of men broke into a mansion in Monte Sereno, California, and killed its owner, Raveesh Kumra, a 66-year-old Silicon Valley investor. When the county crime lab processed evidence from the …

Beyond Geofence Warrants: Chatrie, Reverse-Location Surveillance, and the Fourth Amendment Fight Over Digital Dragnets

by Richard Resch

In December 2023, Google announced that Location History would be migrated from its servers to users’ devices, a change that would effectively end the company’s role as the principal recipient of law-enforcement demands for mass location data and render obsolete the centralized database (known internally …

Swabbed at Booking, Searched for Life: How Pre-Conviction DNA Collection Built a Genetic Mass Surveillance System

Introduction: A Booking Procedure That Does Not End at Booking

In late January 2026, a Minneapolis resident identified only as Ben drove with his wife to a street where federal immigration officers had been spotted. He stood on the sidewalk and filmed. According to …

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