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Secret law enforcement requests to conduct electronic surveillance in domestic criminal cases have surged in federal courts for Northern Virginia and the District, but only one in a thousand of the applications ever becomes public, newly released data show. The bare-bones release by the courts leaves unanswered how long, in what ways and for what crimes federal investigators tracked individuals’ …
EXCLUSIVE, MARK MORRI Crime Editor Acting Police Commissioner Nick Kaldas interview with journalist Andrew Clennell in response to the Paris attacks. Picture: Toby Zerna THE NSW Ombudsman will recommend charges against a number of current or former police officers involved in an investigation into the illegal bugging of more than 100 cops, including former deputy police commissioner Nick Kaldas. Professor …
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan. Picture: Neil McCartney Part of the case against the finance minister may relate to NPA witnesses being ‘murdered’ by a gang who obtained ‘rogue unit’ recordings. The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on Tuesday morning announced that it was proceeding with a criminal case against Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan in relation to his tenure as the SA …
Swiss voters have approved a law that allows security services to conduct surveillance operations Secret service agents are able to legally hack computers in Switzerland after the country voted for a law that allowed them to do so in order to prevent terrorist attacks. According to SwissInfo, 66.5 percent of the voters came out in favour of the law despite …
Another judge held that bugged courthouses in two East Bay counties were legal. The bugged courthouse. Redwood City, California. The FBI violated the Fourth Amendment by recording more than 200 hours of conversation at the entrance to a county courthouse in the Bay Area, a federal judge has ruled. Federal agents planted the concealed microphones around the San Mateo County Courthouse in 2009 and …
Federal agents planted hidden microphones and conducted secret video surveillance at Alameda County’s Rene C. Davidson Courthouse for ten months, despite having no court warrant. The surveillance operation was part of an investigation into alleged bid rigging at foreclosed property auctions where thousands of houses and apartment buildings were sold by banks. But defense attorneys for some of the individuals …
Canada’s federal police force is being investigated by the country’s top privacy watchdog for its use of a controversial mass surveillance device. A spokesperson from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) confirmed to Motherboard that it has opened an investigation into the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s use of IMSI catchers, or “StingRays.” These devices are essentially fake …
The Garda Ombudsman’s office has been sniffing through journalists’ contacts in a probe that lacks teeth. Scrutiny: Phone records of up to 50 individuals may also have featured in an investigation of alleged leaks around the arrest of Independent TD Clare Daly. The disturbing revelations that the Garda Ombudsman Commission has been snooping on journalists’ phone records confirms the watchdog’s …
Photo: Emma O’Connor, who was hit by a car in Alice Springs, pictured with her son Kaiden. A secret listening device planted in a caravan provided the evidence that led to the arrest of an Alice Springs couple over a hit-and-run, a court has heard. Brett Alan Dredge, 52, and his wife Narelle Dredge, 51, were arrested earlier this month …
A baby’s car seat complete with audio and video recorder for covert surveillance… Privacy International’s investigative report reveals the companies selling surveillance tech to Colombia, despite that it may be used for unlawful spying. “We always assume we are being watched. It is part of our understanding. We think it’s a tactic to wear us down. We get tipped off …