from the sorry-about-that dept As many have pointed out, our mobile phones are the perfect surveillance device. Most people carry them around — voluntarily — while they are awake. Put this together with the fact that mobile phones have to connect to a nearby transmitter in order to work, and you end up with a […]
from the inching-towards-accountability dept Another layer of opacity shielding bad cops from accountability has been lifted in California. Accountability and transparency hasn’t exactly been welcomed by the state’s law enforcement agencies, but recent developments have forced it upon these unwelcoming recipients. As of the first of this year, police misconduct and use-of-force records are now
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FILE PHOTO: Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee speaks at the company’s headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, June 23, 2015. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/File Photo SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s Supreme court on Thursday overturned part of an appeals court ruling in the bribery case of Samsung Group’s de facto chief Jay Y. Lee, who had
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A judge has blocked the rollout of Facebook's Clear History tool in the US due to a pending trial. Source link
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Mad Dogg Athletics, one of the pioneers of the indoor cycling craze, has filed a Chapter 11 petition in order to restructure its operations and debt. The filing comes after three years of steady revenue declines that culminated in a loss in 2018. The biggest factor in the bankruptcy was a dispute over the termination
It’s one thing to send a bogus legal threat in an effort to suppress criticism, because usually the only consequence of that is public humiliation and a little Streisand Effect heat; but if you really want to score an own-goal, the best way to do so is to send a fake court order to
By Pascal Luquet, Mickaël Duquenne, & Paul Bufort, Grant Thornton Société d’Avocats, Neuilly-Sur-Seine, France Google has won yet another round of litigation against the French tax authority. On April 25, the Paris administrative court of appeal confirmed that Google Ireland had no permanent establishment in France from 2005–2010. Google was not taxable in France on
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It began in July 2017, when Katelin Seo was arrested on stalking-related charges and ordered to unlock her cellphone as part of the criminal investigation. Seo refused, invoking her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, and a flurry of constitutional and technology-related questions ensued. Can a citizen invoke the Fifth Amendment to protect what’s on their
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Please enable Javascript to watch this video CARMEL, Ind. – Smartphones are just that, smart! And when you put a password on them, they’re even smarter, encrypting everything on your phone. About 95 percent of Americans have cell phones and 77 percent have smartphones, according to Pew Research. Many of them are password protected. It
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The Indiana Supreme Court is hearing the case of a woman who refused to unlock her cellphone for police in a stalking investigation. Attorneys in the case say the court’s decision could undermine privacy interests and constitutional rights, or public safety and law enforcement. The Supreme Court will hear arguments next month in a case
