2015-09-16 Social Media and Emerging Applications: Investigative Potential and Legal Issues from Frederick Lane The Criminal Justice Institute in Little Rock, Arkansas, invited me to design and present a one-day continuing education course for Arkansas law enforcement officers. The course was certified for 7 hours of CLE credit by the Arkansas Commission on Law Enforcement…
In general, the issues that I cover in this blog are fairly apolitical — there’s not a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats when it comes to cyberbullying, cyberharrassment, or digital misconduct by educators. But when it comes to privacy and issues of national security, political divisions inevitably creep into the discussion. The first…
Brad Robbert, a former adjunct assistant rofessor of Theater at Tulane University, will go on trial August 3 in Orleans Parish Criminal District on 50 counts that he possessed child pornography and 1 count of possession with intent to distribute. According to his online biography, Robbert also served as operations director for the Tulane University…
The world’s leading for-profit geneaology company, Ancestry.com, was founded in Provo, Utah in 1983. Thirteen years later, an 18-year-old woman named Angie Dodge was sexually assaulted and murdered in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Nearly two decades after her death, a twisting set of circumstances and rapidly-evolving technology have linked those two events in ways that have…
The Eleventh Circuit Federal Court of Appeals, which encompasses the states of Florida, Georgia, and Alabama, ruled Monday that police do not need to get a search warrant in order to obtain cell phone tower data from cellular providers during a criminal investigation. The 9-2 en banc decision in United States v. Davis overturned an…
From 1873 to his death in 1915, Anthony Comstock was one of the most powerful cultural arbiters in the United States. As Special Agent for the United States Postal Services and Secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, Comstock was charged with enforcing anti-obscenity and anti-indency laws for which he lobbied…
2014-04-10 American Privacy: The 400-Year History of Our Most Contested Right from Frederick Lane A presentation based on my book American Privacy that I delivered to the Genesis Client Forum in Chicago, IL on April 10, 2014. If you are interested in discussing a presentation or professional development program for your organization on this topic,…
2010-07-30 LimeWire Made Me Do It from Frederick Lane Presented to the offices of the Federal Public Defender of Middle Tennessee and the Federal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee, Inc. in Knoxville, TN on July 30, 2010. This 3-4 hour seminar is designed to aid public defenders, CJA panel attorneys, and criminal defense lawyers in…
2010-07-20 American Privacy from Frederick Lane A lecture on my book, American Privacy, delivered at the 2010 eCampus conference at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH on July 20, 2010. This hour seminar is designed to provide audiences with a brief overview of the history of the right to privacy in the United States. If you are…
