[ad_1] The US has edged one step closer to securing the extradition of Huawei’s CFO over alleged Iran sanction violations. The Supreme Court of British Columbia has ruled (via TechCrunch) that Meng Wanzhou’s case met the standard for “double criminality” in extraditions — that is, what she allegedly did in one country was also illegal […]
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AG Barr seeks ‘legislative solution’ to make companies unlock phones
[ad_1] Last December, a Saudi Arabian cadet training with the US military opened fire at Naval Air Station Pensacola, killing three soldiers and wounding eight others. The FBI recovered two iPhones, and after failing to access their data, asked Apple to unlock them. The company refused, but eventually the FBI unlocked at least one of […]
France gives social media sites one hour to delete criminal content
[ad_1] The internet has no shortage of illegal media and verbiage. Social media companies do what they can to soften the blow, but unsavory (and downright criminal) images, videos and text inevitably break through. According to Reuters, France’s government has passed a strict law that will require companies like Facebook and Twitter to delete content […]
A hacker stole and leaked the Xbox Series X graphics source code
[ad_1] The self-proclaimed hacker added that she wanted $100 million for the source code and threatened to “leak everything” if there was no buyer. She reportedly found the GPU data in a “hacked computer” in November, although AMD said it hadn’t been approached until December. AMD doesn’t appear to be bowing under pressure. It believed […]
Google location data led police to investigate an innocent cyclist
[ad_1] The initial data had been anonymized like Google said it would in the past, but police had asked Google to provide information about McCoy’s account after noticing the unusual activity. Google notified McCoy of the request on January 14th of this year, but he had just a week to ask a court to block […]
Hitting the Books: How an attempt at digital allyship fell flat
[ad_1] #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justiceby Sarah J. Jackson, Moya Bailey, Brooke Foucault Welles For people living in the margins of American society, Twitter’s ability to connect and amplify their voices offers unprecedented social and political opportunity. Hashtags like #BlackLivesMatter, #GirlsLikeUs, and #ICantBreathe have become rallying cries whose online impacts have resulted in […]
Banjo AI surveillance is already monitoring traffic cams across Utah
[ad_1] Banjo relies on info scraped from social media, satellite imaging data and the real-time info from law enforcement. Banjo claims its “Live Time Intelligence” AI can identify crimes — everything from kidnappings to shootings and “opioid events” — as they happen. Banjo presents many of the same concerns that similar companies have encountered. One […]
Ohio man charged for laundering $300 million through Bitcoin ‘mixer’
[ad_1] It’s not clear what level of punishment authorities want if Harmon is found guilty. However, the charges of money laundering conspiracy, running an unlicensed money transmitting business and sending money without a DC license could add up to a significant amount of time behind bars. A charge for an unlicensed money transmitting business carries […]
Hacker pleads guilty to stealing Nintendo secrets
[ad_1] In Hernandez’ renewed campaign, which ended when the FBI seized his devices in June 2019, he apparently broke into “multiple” Nintendo servers and stole a host of secret info, bragging about it on Discord and Twitter while leaking some of the data elsewhere. He even shared potential vulnerabilities in Nintendo’s network with his community. […]
London police begin using live facial recognition tech across the capital
[ad_1] In a tweet, the Met assured the public that any images obtained that don’t trigger a potential alert are deleted immediately — and that it’s up to officers whether they decide to stop someone based on an alert or not. The technology operates from a standalone system, and isn’t linked to any other imaging […]