Hackers affiliating themselves with the hacktivist label have joined the Black Lives Matter backlash after a fatal police shooting on Friday.
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Georgia hit with malware yet again
The Department of Public Safety says it won’t pay, but given the umpteen times the state’s agencies have been hit, somebody’s not listening.
Facial recognition surveillance must be banned, says Fight for the Future
“We don’t need to regulate it, we need to ban it entirely.”
Miami police body cam videos up for sale on the darkweb
Videos from Miami Police Department body cams were leaked and stored in unprotected, internet-facing databases, then sold on the darkweb.
Cop awarded $585K after colleagues snooped on her via license database
Krekelberg alleged that 58 fellow officers broke a federal privacy law by searching for her driver’s license data without any reason.
Cop arrested following explicit chat with bogus 16yo girl
A male college student Snapchat-filtered himself into a young girl and went out to catch a predator. The first one he caught was a Californian cop.
Google’s location history data shared routinely with police
Law enforcement officials in the US have been routinely mining Google’s location history data for criminal investigations.
Cop charged with selling phone tracking service on dark web
A French police officer has been charged with using police intelligence data to power a mobile phone tracking service sold via the dark web.
US law enforcement now needs a warrant to use stingrays
Federal law enforcement agencies will now require a warrant before they can deploy stingrays and other similar devices. Any data collected will also have to be deleted post haste.
Stingrays used to track petty crime
Baltimore revealed that it’s used stingrays 4300 times, and now we know most of that is on the level of check forgery and phone theft.