Defendant was arrested after detectives determined he appeared to be the individual on a surveillance video who accompanied another individual who fraudulently accessed a bank account to cash a check. At trial, the investigating detective’s testimony identified defendant on the ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress’ debate over domestic surveillance is scrambling partisan divisions in the Senate as libertarian-minded Republicans defy their leaders to make common cause with liberal Democrats. Tea party conservative Sen. Mike Lee of Utah is pairing with liberal ...

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Three federal appeals court judges struggled Tuesday over whether the National Security Agency's phone data surveillance program is an intelligence-gathering tool that makes the nation safer or an intrusive threat that endangers privacy.

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State v. Williams (Lawyers Weekly No. 14-07-0671, 19 pp.) (Wanda Bryant, J.) Appealed from Mecklenburg County Superior Court (Robert Ervin, J.) N.C. App. 13-1280 Holding: Defendant’s asserted “fundamental right to be free from continuous government surveillance” is not one we ...

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The major distinction between lawyers and other professionals is that lawyers are covered by a rule of confidentiality. Only the clergy and doctors have anything approaching this rule. However, that confidentiality may be at risk in our new surveillance-dominated society. ...

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U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano is pushing legislation he says will require television watchers be given a warning before their television set starts to watch them back.

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Until recently, the phrase “private investigator” would likely conjure images of Sam Spade tailing a cheating spouse. That kind of work has long been a staple of family law and criminal defense attorneys, but these days the most lucrative part of the gumshoe business is “corporate intelligence”—the investigative firms that specialize in sniffing around corporations, often to assist with pending litigation.

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Rumfelt v. N.C. Baptist Hospital Plaintiff insists on using a cane when she knows she is being watched, but surveillance footage shows her walking with neither a cane nor a limp and carrying items with both hands. No doctor has taken her out of work. Despite her use of a cane during her functional capacity evaluation, she was shown capable of sedentary work.

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