Ninth Circuit: Guam police violated civil rights of businessman

From: legal_reality
Subj: Fwd: Ninth Circuit: Guam police violated civil rights of businessman

18 August A.D. 2013

There may be another step in this matter, i.e., the Supreme Court.  As it presently stands, there's one more case confirming that the police have no authority to prevent an individual from the use of his/her camera.  This time, Guam officials intended to destroy the evidence preserved by that man's camera.  Thing is, it may be that no matter how great an award damages may be ordered, he still doesn't have his cell phone or the pictures.

In other words, the destruction of evidence may continue, but if the bean-counters get a say in the practice, we can hope their perspective is that such destruction of evidence is beyond the department's budget to be able to afford.

A note posted five years ago says this about uploading to the internet:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080409122155AAzDitL


The concept to illustrate is that the notion of simultaneously uploading has been around for a while.


Here's one from a couple of years ago, and it addresses how to turn off the auto-upload feature for certain types of cell phones.

http://www.vlogg.com/499/how-to-disable-instant-upload-to-google-plus-from-your-android-or-iphone-app/


The point is that where one expects to need to use a cell phone for keeping evidence, having access to an application that posts "instantly" may still be necessary technology for so long as the "authorities" continue to charge criminally those intending to preserve evidence.

Harmon L. Taylor
Legal Reality
Dallas, Texas

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