Strip Searches and the Right to Counsel
- August 15, 2025
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
What is the relationship between the right to counsel and the police power to strip search incidental to arrest? That question was recently answered by the Ontario Court of Appeal in the case of an Etobicoke man convicted of importing…
Generative AI Is Accelerating Social Engineering
- July 31, 2025
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
Social engineering relies on trickery and persuasion rather than technologically skillful cyber attacks. Threat actors who use social engineering tactics don’t exploit systems. They exploit trust. They hack people. Deploying tactics of psychological manipulation targeting human vulnerability threat actors continue…
Cybercrime Syndicate Indicted in U.S. Health Care Fraud Scheme
- July 15, 2025
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
The playbook was simple. Purchase legitimate medical supply companies enrolled in Medicare and use them as shells to submit a flood of bogus claims for durable medical equipment. The scheme didn’t need phony patients. The stolen identities of a million…
The Privacy Implications of Artificial Intelligence
- June 30, 2025
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
The relentless collection of personal data is a persistent threat to privacy and freedom in the evolving era of artificial intelligence. The privacy implications of web scraping, social media monitoring and harvesting of biometric data are far-reaching and undermine the…
North Korean Money Laundering Tactics Exposed
- June 15, 2025
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
The United States Department of Justice has filed a civil forfeiture complaint alleging that North Korean information technology workers obtained illegal employment and generated millions for the North Korean government as a means to avoid U.S. sanctions. The U.S. government…