The prawn fishery is highly regulated throughout British Columbia to ensure sustainability, conservation and protection. Licences are required for commercial and recreational prawn fishing. Communal fishing licences may also be issued to First Nations as defined in the regulations. That is the backdrop of a recent ruling from the British ...
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The proliferation of manslaughter charges against drug traffickers has revealed the extent to which overdose mortality has been mobilized by law enforcement, prosecutors and the judiciary in the pursuit of these charges. The opioid crisis has also been used to justify a shift in sentencing policy particularly in cases of ...
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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 heroin. A second opportunity to call a lawyer must be ...
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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 to experiment with artificially intelligent tools to enhance realism and ...
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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 people were used to submit claims under real names. But ...
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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 right to personal autonomy. Maintaining control over personal information is ...
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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 was able to freeze and seize over $7.74 million tied ...
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Money laundering is pervasive, clandestine and transnational. Measures to combat money laundering have been implemented by most states and have become integral tools at the disposal of national and transnational law enforcement. In this post I will discuss what money laundering is and the various means that are commonly used ...
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Cybercrime transcends national borders and includes a range of offences generally associated with a profit motive such as fraud, extortion and identity theft. Cybercrimes that involve at least one state actor are often referred to as cyberwarfare. Cybercrime not only impacts security of the person but also implicates the broader ...
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A former Taliban commander who once led a thousand militants has pleaded guilty in a New York court to hostage-taking and providing material support for terrorism. The guilty pleas came almost twenty years after the abduction of an American journalist and the killing of three U.S. soldiers during the bloody ...
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