Technology, Surveillance, and Device Tracking in the 2020s: Frontier Issues in Fourth Amendment Law 

Wednesday, February 4, 2026
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. ET
Virtual - Zoom

CLE Credit Available: (1) Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection
 

Albany Law Alumni, Faculty, and Staff - Free
Non-Albany Law Alumni - $30 for CLE, Free for no CLE

Registration

This presentation will dive into the cutting-edge legal battles reshaping privacy and policing in the digital age. Participants will explore how emerging technologies are testing the limits of the Fourth Amendment, our courts, and our own perceptions of privacy and private spaces. Panelists will discuss timely examples, which may include AI-assisted surveillance, geofence warrants, government access to commercial data, vehicle tracking, and smart car surveillance (a/k/a vehicle telematics).
 

This session is part of Albany Law School's Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Data Protection CLE Series. 

Speakers

Matthew Tokson, Professor of Law, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law

Matthew Tokson is a Profedssor of Law at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law and a leading expert in Fourth Amendment law. His research focuses on the Fourth Amendment’s application to new technologies and social contexts. He has also written about issues in privacy, artificial intelligence, judicial decision-making, and criminal punishment. Professor Tokson graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College and with high honors from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was the Executive Articles Editor of the Law Review. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg and to the Honorable David H. Souter of the United States Supreme Court. Professor Tokson has also served as a senior litigation associate in the criminal investigations group of WilmerHale, in Washington, D.C.

Joel Schwarz, Esq. ’92, Adjunct Professor at Albany Law School

Joel Schwarz is a consultant/attorney specializing in privacy, cybersecurity, compliance and oversight (with a specialty in HIPAA compliance), as well as cybercrime response, and cyber intelligence. Joel possesses a unique 360 perspective on privacy and cyber law and policy, as a former privacy/cyber prosecutor at both the state and federal level (New York State Attorney General’s Office & U.S. Department of Justice), a former Intelligence Community Privacy Officer (Office of the Director of National Intelligence & National Counterterrorism Center), as well as cybersecurity and privacy in the private sector, for MetLife and Natera. Joel also holds technical expertise stemming from undergraduate work in computer programming and graduate work in Advanced Information Technologies. Joel is also an Adjunct Professor at Albany Law School, where he develops and teaches Master’s and LLM courses on cybercrime, cybersecurity and privacy. He frequently speak and writes on privacy, data protection, cybersecurity, emerging technologies and intellectual property matters, and has published in a range of journals and online fora, to include The Hill, Bloomberg, Education Week, the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ Privacy Advisor, etc. Joel is also a cybercrime/privacy expert for a local Washington, D.C. TV News station, providing insights and guidance on breaking stories. Finally, Joel is a Co-founder and Board member of the Student Data Privacy Project (SDPP), a foundation focused on working with parents and school districts to protect student data privacy and hold EdTech companies accountable for safeguarding student data.

Joel has a forthcoming book focused on educating mid and senior-level executives, as well as the C-Suite and Board, on the technical, practical and legal aspects of cybersecurity, privacy and incident response, tentatively titled, “From Main Street to C-Suite: Cybersecurity, Privacy and Working with Law Enforcement.”

CLE Information

Albany Law School’s Center for Continuing Legal Education has been certified by the New York State Continuing Legal Education Board as an accredited provider of Continuing Legal Education in the State of New York.  This program has been accredited as a source of 1 continuing legal education credit for non-transitional and transitional attorneys in New York State. (1 Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection - General)   For financial hardship guidelines, please call the Center for Continuing Legal Education at (518) 472-5888. 

Accommodation
We welcome requests for accommodation due to a disability.  Please contact Albany Law School’s Center for Continuing Legal Education at (518) 472-5888 at least a week prior to the course to discuss your requirements.

Note:
New York State Continuing Legal Education Board regulations state that credit shall be awarded only for attendance at an entire course or program, or for attendance at an entire session of a course or program.  No credit shall be awarded for attending a portion of a course or a portion of a session.