US police are typically the ones to surveil, not the other way around, as Google’s crowd-sourced, police-mapping traffic app is doing. Now sheriffs are asking Google to pull the plug on it. 
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Cops arrest another man after Christmas PlayStation/Xbox DDoS
Police have arrested a second man in connection with the Lizard Squad’s Grinch-like Christmas attack on gamers.
Have the cops busted one of the Lizard Squad?
The “Lizard Squad” took out Microsoft’s and Sony’s games networks on Christmas Day. Everyone involved knew in advance that law enforcement would be *very* interested in whodunnit…
YouTube channel swamps police with requests for disclosure of body-cam video
A YouTube channel has been surfacing police body-cam footage. It now has some 75 videos up, showing, among other things, men with knives, break-ins, car accidents, drug smoking, and an emergency phone call about a woman going into labor. Subjects’ privacy, it seems, is getting trampled in the stampede to get at such video. 
Dubai police add facial recognition to Google Glass
A spokesman confirmed a report that Dubai police have developed software that will connect a Glass wearer to a database of wanted people. Is it 1984 yet? 
“You’re under arrest for possession of an insecure phone” – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Here’s this week’s 60 Second Security video. News you can use in a format you can enjoy…all in 60 seconds!