Proactive policing includes the practice of heightening police presence to reduce crime. But a recent ruling from the Alberta Court of King's Bench on a disclosure motion may indicate that other important outcomes are unclear. Is it good law enforcement policy to get guns off the streets if police initiatives ...
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The crackdown on corporate fraud has continued with the recent indictment unsealed in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, charging Anthony Tepedino, C.E.O. of Allstate Sales Group, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. The indictment is another case in the global shift from ...
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A former Special Agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has been indicted for conspiracy to commit money laundering. Paul Campo, who rose to become a senior figure in the agency's financial operations office, is charged with agreeing to launder millions in drug proceeds for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel ...
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Is it a violation of the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure when a citizen hands over evidence of a crime to the police and the police examine it without getting a search warrant? That question has been considered by two provincial courts of appeal in Canada ...
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Spyware vendor NSO Group has appealed the ruling of a United States federal judge that it must cease targeting WhatsApp users with zero click Pegasus spyware claiming it will sustain potentially existential injuries if a permanent injunction is not stayed. The manufacturer of the sophisticated surveillance tool said in a ...
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An Australian cybersecurity executive living in the United States has pleaded guilty to selling trade secrets to a Russian cyber broker. The nature of the trade secret software has not been made public but prosecutors said it was intended to be sold exclusively to the U.S. government and trusted allies ...
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Generative artificial intelligence is a specialized field of artificial intelligence that uses generative models to produce text and other forms of data. Sometimes called GenAI, these models learn the patterns and structures of vast amounts of data and then use that information to produce new data based on natural language ...
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On May 5, 2021, Diexin Liu was moving from Calgary, Alberta, to Toronto, Ontario, when he was stopped by a highway patrol officer near Swift Current, Saskatchewan. He was arrested when the officer saw unstamped tobacco in the vehicle. And a search turned up five kilograms of cannabis. Convicted by ...
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Former FBI director James Comey has been charged with lying to the United States Congress in a case that deepens concerns that the Department of Justice is being weaponized in pursuit of public figures regarded as political enemies by President Donald Trump. The indictment was filed as the White House ...
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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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