A criminal complaint was unsealed yesterday in Brooklyn, New York, charging three people with conspiracy to commit wire fraud stemming from a global procurement scheme on behalf of sanctioned Russian entities including companies affiliated with the Russian military. Some of the technology was found in seized Russian weapons platforms and ...
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The detention of two journalists by Polish military officers and the searches of their cellphones and cameras for information documenting events near Poland's border with Belarus has reached the European Court of Human Rights. The case presents an opportunity to consider again the highly intrusive nature of digital searches and ...
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The constitutional prohibition of arbitrary detention in Canada limits the ability of the state to impose intimidating and coercive pressure on the citizen without adequate justification. Yet the experience of radicalized youth and those living in low income neighbourhoods is one of differential treatment and lost hope in the right ...
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Modern automobiles are prodigious datavores. But owners have little control over the personal information their vehicles collect and many manufacturers share it with government or law enforcement for the asking. No longer designed simply for transportation the automobile has been transformed into a corporate surveillance machine. Long gone is the ...
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An international consortium of law enforcement agencies has disrupted Qakbot in the largest U.S.-led takedown of a botnet infrastructure. Between October 2021 and April 2023 Qakbot administrators received fees of approximately $58 million in ransomware payments. The investigation identified over 700,000 infected computers worldwide and netted the seizure of $8.6 ...
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Former vice president Mike Pence said the president pressured him to reject the certification of the election result. And he said the president's cabal of crackpot lawyers pressured him. They asked him to literally reject electoral votes at a ceremonial proceeding in Congress that would have thrown the U.S. House ...
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Three men burst into the garage and shot Shabir Niazi. It was a drug rip off. That's what Keenan Corner told the police at the scene. But at his trial for second degree murder he told an Oshawa jury he shot Mr. Niazi in the garage of his parents home ...
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The Supreme Court of Canada ordered a new trial yesterday for a Toronto man convicted by a jury of participation in the activities of a criminal organization. The charges stemmed from a police probe into illegal firearms trafficking in Ontario that included a wiretap component. In a 7-1 majority opinion ...
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During the final weeks of the Trump administration attorney John Eastman promoted false conspiracy theories and allegations of fraud to pressure Republican state legislatures to appoint alternate slates of presidential electors. Based on a contorted reading of constitutional history he attempted to influence White House advisors in a legal opinion ...
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The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has initiated two enforcement actions in two days against major platforms in the cryptocurrency market environment. The two civil cases are another push by the SEC to flex its muscle over crypto markets often described as the Wild West of investing. But the ...
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