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Suspended Greenville County, South Carolina sheriff Will Lewis bugged “multiple offices” inside his department, according to several Upstate sources familiar with the status of an ongoing investigation into his administration. Lewis – who was indicted earlier this month on misconduct in office and obstruction of justice charges – has been the... Read More »
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An employee at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Burlington has been fired from his job and charged with wiretapping for placing a a hidden camera in an employee restroom, officials said Thursday. Michael Mcdermott, 21, of Tewksbury was charged with three counts of photographing an unsuspecting nude person, and one count of possession of a wiretap... Read More »
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In New York, a person is guilty of eavesdropping, a felony, when he or she unlawfully engages in wiretapping, "mechanical overhearing" of a conversation or intercepting an electronic communication. Wiretapping is the use of a device to intentionally, and without consent, record a telephonic communication, by a person other than a participant. "Mechanical... Read More »
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New text message fraud surfaces in India Over a dozen Bengalureans have fallen prey to a new through which fraudsters have accessed their bank-generated One Time Passwords (OTPs) and swindled them of lakhs of rupees. While are probing multiple complaints, experts suspect the use of MazarBOT, a malware sent as an SMS link to the victim to gain remote... Read More »
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An independent investigator has uncovered evidence that Alameda City Manager Jill Keimach unlawfully recorded two councilmembers and another city employee without their consent last year.... The existence of the alleged recordings was first learned in early March by independent investigator Michael Jenkins, an attorney who was hired by the council to... Read More »
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Police in Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and beyond are gaining new freedoms to fight crime. Some worry authorities are going too far. With extremist violence on the rise, German states are passing legislation allowing the police wide powers of surveillance of suspects while lowering the bar about what constitutes a threat. In Bavaria, for example, a new... Read More »
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The Criminal Code, R.S.C. 1985, c. C-46 [Criminal Code] imposes a general prohibition on interception (recording) of private communications, but then provides an exception where one of the parties to the private communication consents to the interception of that communication. Thus, broadly speaking, Canadians can legally record their own conversations with... Read More »
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The Department of Homeland Security has detected in the Washington, D.C., area what appears to be the unauthorized use of a controversial technology that allows for the surreptitious surveillance of people's cellphones - though it has not been able to pinpoint who or what is causing it, the department revealed in a letter released Tuesday. The... Read More »
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Although “wiretapping” sounds like something out of a spy movie or mafia crime ring investigation, it generally just refers to the act of recording a conversation (typically a conversation held over a telephone, hence the “wire” reference).... Unlike some other states, New Jersey generally only requires the consent of one party to a conversation... Read More »
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Does buying a smartphone from certain Chinese brands expose you to spying? Ordinarily you’d judge the Mate 10 Pro from China's Huawei on its its lovely 6-inch OLED display and exceptional battery life. But there’s a bigger issue beyond the specs of the flagship handset from the No. 3 phone maker in the world....Lawmakers in the United States have... Read More »
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