Surveillance News
A change in the Pennsylvania wiretap laws could come this year and Philadelphia's district attorney is cheering it on. Currently to record a person and have that recording admitted in court you need both parties permission. DA Seth Williams says that can make victims into criminals. "There are too many victims of incest, too many victims of... Read More »
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A federal appeals court has ruled as constitutional a law giving telecommunications companies legal immunity for helping the government with its email and telephone eavesdropping program. Thursday’s unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court decision regarding the 2008 law. The appeal... Read More »
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For tips on sweeping a room for surreptitious surveillance devices, look no further than the Federal Bureau of Investigation. That's where members of the federal government have been going for years to find out who's wiretapped their telephone or implanted a microphone in their corner office. And now we know a lot more about the bureau's routine wiretap... Read More »
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Just two per cent of suspected stalkers are being jailed, a shocking report reveals today. Violent offenders who hound their victims, bombarding them with terrifying letters and phone calls, breaking into their homes and threatening to kill are escaping with community punishments and suspended sentences in most cases. In some instances, ‘high... Read More »
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The NYPD ticket-fixing scandal has slowed the wheels of justice in The Bronx — as prosecutors move to plead out or even drop cases involving cops caught on wiretap, The Post has learned. Bronx DA Robert Johnson’s office is culling the names of all officers monitored in the investigation and cross-referencing them with open criminal cases,... Read More »
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Hope Mills Commissioner Jerry Legge says he hopes the town can put the controversy over an apparent illegal wiretap incident behind it. We do, too, but it won't happen until a lot of questions find some answers. The commissioners had hoped to ask some of those questions at a meeting Friday morning, but Town Attorney John Jackson, who did the... Read More »
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An animal welfare campaigner has accused turkey farmer Bernard Matthews of using private detectives to spy on her by putting a tracking device on her car. Wendy Valentine runs the Hillside Animal Sanctuary in Norwich and has campaigned against factory farming practices for more than 15 years. Investigators from her sanctuary secretly filmed Bernard... Read More »
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Federal officials violated wiretap laws while investigating financier Tim Durham, according to a motion filed today that calls for the dismissal of conspiracy and fraud charges against Durham. In a "memorandum in support of motion to dismiss" filed this morning in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Indianapolis attorney John... Read More »
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The U.S. government hasn't officially acknowledged whether the National Security Agency is secretly siphoning the nation's electronic communications without warrants, as the Electronic Frontier Foundation alleges. But according to former AT&T technician Mark Klein, AT&T installed a secret spying room in an internet hub in San Francisco and was helping the... Read More »
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Defense attorneys today questioned the legality of wiretap devices used in the case against 31 people accused of participating in a gambling and money laundering ring allegedly run by the Lucchese crime family. During a conference in Superior Court in Morristown, several defense attorneys raised the issue of the wiretaps used in the investigation and... Read More »
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