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UPDATE. Police in Mississippi are testing a program in which they can livestream video footage from private security cameras - including Ring doorbell cameras - installed at private homes and businesses. Even though the camera owners agree to participate in the program, cameras such as Ring often capture footage of people in the vicinity also going about their daily business, people who likely did not agree to have their moves surveilled by law enforcement, Guariglia wrote.
A former BAE Systems engineer accused of failing to hand over his device passwords to Merseyside Police vowed not to give them up until a watchdog investigated his allegations that police workers had perverted the course of justice, the Old Bailey heard. Finch is accused, as previously reported, of failing to hand over his passwords to police on demand - a crime in the UK - and of revealing secrets about a UK missile system to various foreign countries and other individuals, contrary to the Official Secrets Act.
There is a new report on police decryption capabilities: specifically, mobile device forensic tools. This report documents the widespread adoption of MDFTs by law enforcement in the United States.
As if things were not going badly enough for the UK's COVID-19 test-and-trace service, it now seems police will be able to access some test data, prompting fears the disclosure could deter people who should have tests from coming forward. As revealed in the Health Service Journal [paywall], the Department for Health and Social Care and the National Police Chiefs' Council have agreed that officers can access test results to determine whether or not a "Specific individual" has been told to self-isolate.
European and American officials said Thursday that they have arrested 20 people in several countries for allegedly belonging to an international ring that laundered millions of euros stolen by cybercriminals through malware schemes. The international police operation "2BaGoldMule" led by Portuguese investigators and the FBI included 14 more European countries, under the umbrella of Europol.
German investigating authorities have raided the offices of Munich-based company FinFisher that sells the infamous commercial surveillance spyware dubbed 'FinSpy,' reportedly in suspicion of illegally exporting the software to abroad without the required authorization. Investigators from the German Customs Investigation Bureau, ordered by the Munich Public Prosecutor's Office, searched a total of 15 properties in Munich, including business premises of FinFisher GmbH, two other business partners, as well as the private apartments of the managing directors, along with a partner company in Romania from October 6 to 8.
A police officer who quit while under investigation for computer misuse crimes has walked free from court after pleading guilty to a total of nine offences. At the time he committed his crimes, Westbury was a constable with Dyfed-Powys Police.
A global police sting has netted 179 vendors selling illegal goods online and seized millions in currency, drugs and guns, heralding an end to the "Golden age" of dark web markets, Europol said Tuesday. Led by the German federal criminal police "This takedown provided investigators with... data and materials to identify suspects behind dark web accounts used for illegal activity", Europol said.
In a shock ruling today, the UK Court of Appeal has declared that South Wales Police broke the law with an indiscriminate deployment of automated facial-recognition technology in Cardiff city centre. Despite police promises that his image and data derived from it would have been instantly deleted if he was not a person of interest to them, he filed a lawsuit saying that police broke human rights and data protection laws.
HID Global announced the expansion of its biometrics identification management solutions to police departments and military installations around the globe. "The expansion of our offering to include iOS platforms broadens the adaptability and application of our mobile biometric solutions and equips our customers - from law enforcement to military officials - with the confidence to achieve rapid identification anywhere," said Jessica Westerouen van Meeteren, VP & Managing Director, Citizen Identity with HID Global.