by Steve Burgess | Oct 12, 2026 | AI, Attorneuys, Attorneys, Cell phones, Cyber Investigations, Cyberbullying, Digital Evidence, Digital Forensics, Electronic Discovery
If you scan the criminal dockets for cases involving cyberstalking, you will notice a persistent pattern. Cyberstalking is rarely the main course. More often than not, it’s just the side dish. It gets tacked onto a primary indictment for domestic violence, extortion,...
by Steve Burgess | Oct 5, 2026 | AI, Attorneys, Cell phones, Cyber Investigations, Digital Evidence, Digital Forensics
Your next custodian might not have an inbox, a job title, strong feelings about the office thermostat, or about someone nuking last night’s salmon in the microwave. It might have API access. For the uninitiated, an API is a way for software systems to communicate and...
by Steve Burgess | Sep 28, 2026 | AI, Attorneys, Cell phones, Digital Forensics, Expert Witness Insights, Forensic stories, Shopping Agent, Tech
We have spent years teaching computers to answer our questions, although sometimes it is the other way around. Now we are teaching them to spend our money. The first time an AI shopping agent orders the wrong shoes, nobody will call a lawyer, but the first time it...
by Steve Burgess | Sep 23, 2026 | Attorneys, Cell phones, CSI, Digital Forensics, Electronic Discovery, Evidence Preservation
TV has made digital forensics seem like it’s a piece of cake—all you have to do is lean toward a blurry security camera frame, say “Enhance,” and it will work. Every time. (At least on CSI.) In honor of the week, here are a few things television has taught the public...
by Steve Burgess | Sep 8, 2026 | Attorneys, Digital Evidence, Digital Forensics, Electronic Discovery, Technology & Law
The Fourth Amendment walks into the fourth dimension. The bartender says, “Why are you here?” The Fourth Amendment replies, “You’re going to need probable cause to ask me that.” In some of my earlier articles and videos, I referred to a “Fourth Amendment search”...
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...
