by Steve Burgess | Aug 31, 2026 | Attorneys, Cell phones, Cyber Investigations, Digital Evidence, Digital Forensics, Electronic Discovery
Your phone has been keeping a travel diary. For years, Google kept a copy too. That made possible one of the more controversial investigative tools of the smartphone era: the geofence warrant, sometimes called a reverse-location warrant. Instead of starting with a...
by Steve Burgess | Aug 24, 2026 | AI, Digital Evidence, Digital Forensics, Expert Witness Insights, Litigation Support
The messages were set to delete within an hour, and some of those settings were changed after a litigation hold had already landed. That was really the whole idea. If you practice long enough, you learn that the tools change but human nature doesn’t. Caveguy Ugg...
by Steve Burgess | Aug 17, 2026 | Attorneys, Cell phones, Digital Evidence, Digital Forensics, Elder Abuse, Electronic Discovery, Expert Witness Insights, Litigation Support
By Steve Burgess, Burgess Forensics, 2026 “He passed last month, and his whole life is locked inside his phone. Can’t you just get in?” I hear some version of that rather often —more than you might think, in fact. The request comes from grieving families, from...
by Steve Burgess | Aug 3, 2026 | AI, Attorneys, Cell phones, Cyber Investigations, Digital Evidence, Digital Forensics, Electronic Discovery, Expert Witness Insights, Forensic stories, Litigation Support, Technology & Law
The format language in a discovery request is easy to skip over. It looks like boilerplate. It reads like boilerplate. It is actually boilerplate. And so it gets waved through: “produce as PDF, that’s fine.” Maybe not so fine when that same attorney...
by Steve Burgess | Jul 21, 2026 | Attorneuys, Attorneys, Cell phones, Digital Evidence, Digital Forensics, Expert Witness Insights, Forensic stories, Litigation Support, Technology & Law, Uncategorized
A fitness tracker once told me the exact moment its wearer stopped moving. Not slowed down. Stopped. The device wasn’t built to establish a time of death. It was builtto count steps and nag its owner about standing up more often. But it kept a continuous record,...
by Steve Burgess | Jul 14, 2026 | AI, Attorneys, Cell phones, Cyber Investigations, Digital Evidence, Digital Forensics, Electronic Discovery, Litigation Support, Technology & Law
Twenty years ago, a forensic report about a hard drive was mostly an argument about whether a file existed and when it was last touched. And of course, trying to recover deleted material. Today the same report might need to address whether a video is real, whether a...
