The United States Supreme Court has ruled that geofence warrants authorizing law enforcement to search cell phone location history from a crime scene violate the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The sweeping warrants have often been criticized as an unconstitutional dragnet allowing police to collect this ...
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Fentanyl is a dangerous synthetic opioid more potent than heroin and morphine with a high risk of accidental overdose. It is often sold on the street mixed with other drugs and in counterfeit pills made to look like prescription opioids. In recognition of the dangers associated with fentanyl use the ...
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A United States citizen and New York resident has been convicted of acting as an illegal agent of the People's Republic of China for running a secret police station from a building in the Chinatown neighbourhood of Manhattan. Federal prosecutors claimed the Beijing government uses global outposts to target dissidents ...
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Compelled production of a passcode for a digital device by state authorities violates the right to silence under s. 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. But whether the compelled use of biometrics yields the same result has been an open question. And a recent ruling of the ...
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A young man who laundered $3.5 million for a crime syndicate dubbed the Crypto Kids has been sentenced to 70 months by a federal judge in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Investigators said the group formed through online gaming platforms and squandered its loot on ...
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Ali Lalji got involved in a cocaine smuggling conspiracy during the time he worked at Vice Media where he made friends with Yaroslav Pastukhov. They used the company’s headquarters in Toronto, Canada, to recruit couriers for the operation. But the plot may now be less remembered for its notoriety than ...
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Do you have a sweetheart who sends you loving emails but you have never met in person? Does he say you make him feel like he's known you forever? But you can't arrange a date because he's in the military overseas. Did you send him money when his bank account ...
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Ransomware operations are not only a technological problem. They have evolved into systematized extortion campaigns that weaponize stolen data. Although two recent cases in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland involved standard tactics from the ransomware playbook they also highlight the use of extortion strategies indicative ...
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The police in Britain arrested a member of the Royal Family and a former British ambassador to the United States on suspicion of misconduct in public office following the release of the Epstein files by the U.S. Department of Justice. The records disclose a global web of complicity from the ...
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Saudi dissident, Ghanem Al-Masarir, has been awarded £3m in damages by Britain's High Court of Justice in a lawsuit against Saudi Arabia for hacking his cellphones with Pegasus spyware and directing his assault on a London street. The former satirist whose YouTube channels featured criticism of the Saudi government now ...
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