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NYPD Busts $8 Million Counterfeit Phone Scheme
Dec 26, 2016These iPhoneys are going to need a jailbreak. The New York Police Department raided two storefronts in Brooklyn on Thursday night, seizing up to 11,000 fake iPhones and Samsung devices, as well as counterfeit phone accessories. Police ...
Tags: iPhoneys, NYPD, fake phone
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Drugs In Bras
Mar 11, 2016A 23-year-old Chinese national has been arrested and charged in relation to the alleged importation of approximately 44 kilograms of liquid methamphetamine hidden in gel push-up bra inserts. On 25 February 2016, Australian Border Force ...
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Bomb Scare Probe Led Medtronic to Be Sued
Feb 2, 2015Posted in Medical Device Business by Nancy Crotti on January 29, 2015 A former Medtronic employee has sued the company, two employees and local police, claiming that they falsely accused him of making bomb threats against a company ...
Tags: bomb threats, Health
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U. S. Appeals Give out an Appeals Court Ruled in an Order
Aug 5, 2013Warrants are not required by the U.S. government to access historical cell site information, an appeals court ruled in an order. The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects only reasonable expectations of privacy, the U.S. ...
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U.S. Charged Eight People in Connection with a Multimillion-Dollar Cybercrime
Jun 12, 2013U.S. federal prosecutors charged eight people on Wednesday in connection with a multimillion-dollar fraud that siphoned money from hacked accounts at banks and financial institutions, laundered it and sent it overseas. The cover page ...
Tags: Cybercrime, US
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The State Legislature,by a Vote of 113-28,Passed The Bill Last Week
Jun 3, 2013Maine is one step closer to becoming the first state in the nation with a law that would require police to obtain a court-issued search warrant in order to obtain a person's cell-phone location data. The State Legislature, by a vote of ...
Tags: Cell-Phone Tracking, Warrant, Maine
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Texas Is Poised to Become The First State in The U.S. to Require Law Enforcement Officers
May 30, 2013Texas is poised to become the first state in the U.S. to require law enforcement officers to get a search warrant based on probable cause before they access any electronic communications and customer data stored by a third-party service ...
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A Federal Court Has Rejected an FBI Request for a Warrant to Hack Into Computer of Suspect
May 2, 2013A federal court in Houston has rejected an FBI request for a warrant to hack into the computer of a suspect in an attempted cyberheist. In, a sometimes testy, 13-page ruling earlier this week, U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Smith of the ...
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IRS Has Taken The Position It Does Not Need a Search Warrant to Gather Email
Apr 16, 2013CSO - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has taken the position it does not need a search warrant to gather email in criminal investigations, despite opposition from lawmakers and privacy advocates and a ruling by a federal appellate court. ...
Tags: Email Search, IRS
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Applications for Domestic Drone Licenses Are Increasing Steadily
Feb 18, 2013Applications for domestic drone licenses are increasing steadily, even as privacy concerns related to the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over the U.S. continue to mount. Government documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier ...
Tags: domestic drone licenses, drone authorization, unmanned aerial vehicles
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Twitter Has Released New Numbers Showing That Data Requests 69% of The Time in The U.S.
Jan 30, 2013Twitter has released new numbers showing that the social network complied with government data requests 69% of the time in the U.S., as government requests for user information worldwide continue to rise. The total number of information ...
Tags: Twitter, social network, user information
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Twitter Has Released New Numbers on Government Data Requests
Jan 30, 2013Twitter has released new numbers showing that the social network complied with government data requests 69 percent of the time in the U.S., as government requests for user information worldwide continue to rise. The total number of ...
Tags: Twitter, social network, government data
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Google Plans to Implement Three Initiatives to Better Protect Consumers
Jan 29, 2013In light of data privacy day, the search giant promises to increase its efforts in protecting user online information. The new initiatives aim to create a stricter process for handling data request from government agencies. "If it's ...
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Analysis of Google's Transparency Reports
Jan 29, 2013Google’s Transparency Reports, which are released every six months, are interesting not just for what they reveal about government requests for Internet user data, but also for what they fail to reveal. Transparency reports are ...
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Governments Continue to Ask Google for More Data About Its Users
Jan 28, 2013Governments continue to ask Google for more data about its users, with more than two-thirds of requests in the U.S. made through a subpoena, which usually doesn't require asking a judge for a search warrant. User data requests of all ...
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