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no bull and the aftermath.

We see more claims of trade secrecy and more persuasive claims.

So to meet the sort of archetypal example of this is the stingray and Harris Corporation.

Created the stingray, which is basically a cell site simulator that invites cell phones

to connect to it and it sold it to law enforcement.

Conditioned on a promise that law enforcement wouldn't tell anybody, including criminal

defendants that they were using this novel technology.

That in turn, once it looked out that this was in fact going on, generated a whole bunch

of litigation.

So basically what I think is happening here is that as technologies have advanced to

the point where law enforcement is procuring increasingly sophisticated tech, the idea

that that technology needs to be in some way protected becomes more pervasive and in a way

more persuasive.

I'm Jacob Schultz and this is the LawFair podcast, November 17th, 2021.

Hannah Blockweewitt is an associate professor of law at the Texas A&M School of Law and

she's the author of a recent LawFair post entitled Alternative Channels for Police Transparency.

I sat down to talk with Hannah about her LawFair piece and the Law Review article that inspired

it.

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