The New Frontier Surveillance Technology, Ethics and the Law

The internet, smart phones, GPS and other digital devices have drastically changed the way people interact and have resulted in significant privacy and ethical dilemmas with criminal justice implications both for those under investigation and for traditional law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Judges have had to reconsider some of the traditional doctrines that have governed fourth amendment jurisprudence, leading to two recent blockbuster Supreme Court Decisions regarding the digital age. Panelists will explore this “new frontier” of Fourth Amendment law the way this new technology and developing law implicated ethics for all practitioners.