June 16, 2020

‘Anonymous’ takes down Atlanta Police Dept. site after police shooting

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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July 31, 2019

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.

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July 11, 2019

Facial recognition surveillance must be banned, says Fight for the Future

“We don’t need to regulate it, we need to ban it entirely.”

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July 03, 2019

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.

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June 25, 2019

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.

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June 14, 2019

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.

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April 16, 2019

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.

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October 04, 2018

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.

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January 29, 2018

Cop buys mobile spyware, says he can’t remember why

The now-retired cop says he can't quite recall why he used FlexiSpy spyware, which intercepts email and WhatsApp messages.

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