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Though narco-trafficking has long relied on old technologies like boats, trucks and tunnels, both dealers and United States authorities have started adapting to the digital age. That became clear last week when prosecutors at the drug trial of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican crime lord known as El Chapo, suddenly unveiled the cyber-spy tale of a... Read More »
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An ex-prosecutor imprisoned for illegally wiretapping a colleague and a cop she suspected of having an affair is arguing she can’t be sued just because the scandal became water cooler fodder.... Former Brooklyn Assistant DA Stephanie .... Lenich was sentenced to a year and a day behind bars in February, after admitting she forged judges’ signatures... Read More »
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A federal judge ruled Monday that secretly recording government officials, including police officers, who are performing their duties in public is protected by the First Amendment with “reasonable” caveats. Ruling on a pair of challenges to Massachusetts’ wiretap statute, US District Court Judge Patti Saris held that state law “may not... Read More »
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Command staff in the New Carlisle [Indiana] Police Department are being accused of secretly recording private conversations in a civil wiretapping lawsuit filed Monday. The lawsuit was filed by Jeff Roseboom, Abby Moffitt, Patrick Cicero and Ron Colpitts. Roseboom is the former police chief and Colpitts previously served on New Carlisle’s Town Council.... Read More »
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Factoryville veterinarian Michele Zajac was arraigned Monday afternoon on felony charges that she electronically intercepted conversations without the permission of persons speaking. State Police Cpl. William Mackiw noted in a criminal complaint that in February an employee of the Bunker Hill Veterinarian Hospital, where Zajac works, said she discovered... Read More »
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Two individuals with no criminal record—one of whom is a retired California Highway Patrol officer—are asking a California Superior Court why their phones were tapped in 2015. These are just two targets of hundreds of questionable wiretaps authorized by a single judge, Helios J. Hernandez, in Riverside County. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)... Read More »
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A West Chester University student secretly recorded dozens of women in a campus arts center restroom as well as restrooms in area theaters and homes over the last two years, and uploaded at least one video to a website for others to watch, authorities said Tuesday. Joshua Yannuzzi, 24, was charged with more than 100 counts of crimes including invasion of... Read More »
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The former superintendent of Pleasant Valley School District, her former assistant, and another school administrator allegedly targeted, threatened and reassigned teachers and staff who criticized or disagreed with them, a Monroe County investigative grand jury found in recommending a number of charges against them. In a presentment signed last month but... Read More »
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Saudi agents are reportedly secretly installing spyware onto people’s phones to track critics abroad
Saudi agents are reportedly secretly installing spyware on people's smartphones to crack down on critics living abroad. At least one critic of the kingdom had his smartphone targeted by Israeli cyberintelligence firm NSO Group's Pegasus spyware software, which enables hackers to gain access to messages, photos, emails, microphone, and camera, according... Read More »
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ome of the world’s most sophisticated Android and iPhone spyware has been found floating around America for the first time. It's one of as many as 45 countries in which NSO Group malware was uncovered. And together they may represent breaches of American and other nations' computer crime laws against cross-border hacking, not to mention a severe concern... Read More »
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