Future-Proofing Justice: Building a Research Agenda to Address the Effects of Technological Change on the Protection of Constitutional Rights
"New technologies have changed the types of data that are routinely
collected about citizens on a daily basis. For example, smart devices
collect location and communication data, and fitness trackers and
medical devices capture physiological and other data. As technology
changes, new portable and connected devices have the potential to gather
even more information. Such data have great potential utility in
criminal justice proceedings, and they are already being used in case
preparations, plea negotiations, and trials. But the broad expansion of
technological capability also has the potential to stress approaches for
ensuring that individuals' constitutional rights are protected through
legal processes. In an effort to consider those implications, we
convened a panel of criminal justice practitioners, legal scholars, and
individuals from the civil liberties community to identify research and
other needs to prepare the U.S. legal system both for technologies we
are seeing today and for technologies we are likely to see in the
future. Through structured brainstorming, the panel explored a wide
range of potential issues regarding these technologies, from evidentiary
and procedural concerns to questions about the technologies' accuracy
and efficient use. Via a Delphi-based prioritization of the results, the
panel crafted a research agenda — including best practice and training
development, evaluation, and fundamental research efforts — to provide
the criminal justice community with the knowledge and capabilities
needed to address these important and complex technological questions
going forward."
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