Surveillance News
NEW YORK, NY — The city Department of Correction has managed to top itself. Fresh off a scandal for misusing taxpayer-funded vehicles for private trips, a deputy commissioner in the department is now accused of spying on city investigators looking into the DOC. Gregory Kuczinski, the deputy commissioner for the DOC investigation division, has been... Read More »
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A class-action lawsuit accuses Framingham’s Bose Corp. of breaking a federal wiretapping law by keeping tabs on customers’ listening habits without their permission.... Zak downloaded Bose Connect, a free smartphone app that helps users select and play their favorite tunes. But the lawsuit says that Zak didn’t know the app kept track of every... Read More »
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A former county prosecutor in New York was indicted Monday on federal charges of illegally wiretapping two phones. Tara Lenich is set to be arraigned before a federal magistrate on Monday afternoon in Brooklyn. Lenich first faced state charges last fall when she was accused of orchestrating the surveillance of an unnamed male police detective and one of... Read More »
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As the infamous tourism tagline for Nevada’s gambling paradise goes, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. For Joshua Alner, a resident of Sin City, the opposite is true. Alner is the chief of a small malware merchant, Killer Mobile, whose Tracer surveillance tool for Android and iPhone has spread far beyond Las Vegas, all the way to Russia, a Forbes... Read More »
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Numerous Baltimore County government officials received notices from federal prosecutors this month saying their communications had been intercepted as part of a wiretap investigation in 2013 and 2014. Members of the County Council and County Executive Kevin Kamenetz's administration are among those who received the notices, which were dated March... Read More »
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There’s truth to President Trump’s claim that there was wiretapping inside his Midtown skyscraper during the Obama administration — only Trump wasn’t the target. The FBI listened in on phone conversations and monitored text messages between 2011 and 2013 while probing a gambling and money-laundering ring tied to the Russian mob that operated out... Read More »
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Former Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) is defending President Trump's claims about being wiretapped by the Obama administration, saying during an appearance on Fox News's "The O'Reilly Factor" that his own phone had been tapped. Kucinich told Bill O'Reilly Monday night that a phone call to his congressional office from a foreign leader was tapped in 2011.... Read More »
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President Donald Trump is "absolutely right" to claim he was wiretapped and monitored, a former NSA official claimed Monday, adding that the administration risks falling victim to further leaks if it continues to run afoul of the intelligence community. "I think the president is absolutely right. His phone calls, everything he did electronically, was... Read More »
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In a 2015 Women’s Aid survey of 693 women, 29 per cent said they had spyware or GPS locators installed on their phones or computers by a partner or ex. In 2014, NPR surveyed 70 women's shelters, finding 85 per cent were working with victims whose abusers tracked them via GPS, or what's often referred to as "spouseware." Where do those surveillance... Read More »
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Michael T. Flynn, the national security adviser, resigned on Monday night after it was revealed that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence and other top White House officials about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the United States. Mr. Flynn, who served in the job for less than a month, said he had given “incomplete information”... Read More »
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