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Wiretap World News
Columbia - Last week’s cover story in the leading Colombian newsweekly Semana—known for investigations that have shaken the core of the administration of President Alvaro Uribe Vélez—revealed further evidence of illegal wiretapping of journali...
Take Written Notes Next Time
NH - Anthony De La Pena, 37, of 668 Raymond St., Elgin, was arrested Monday on charges of felony eavesdropping and misdemeanor charges of obstructing and resisting a peace officer. De La Pena on Sunday allegedly recorded a verbal exchange between him...
New Communications Bunghole Opens Today...
...Tap arrives later.Sweden - The highly discussed and controversial wiretap law takes effect today. But the signal intelligence agency FRA is far from ready with the technical implementation.The “FRA law” last year was accepted by the Parliament...
S.E.C. Enforcement Chief: ‘Creative Investigation Techniques’ Coming
The use of wiretaps and recordings of conversations to help underpin the insider trading case against the Galleon Group hedge fund struck legal experts as unusual, for an investigation involving the Securities and Exchange Commission.“It is unusual...
Some Courts Raise Bar on Reading Employee Email
via The Wall Street Journal...US - Companies Face Tougher Tests to Justify Monitoring Workers' Personal Accounts; Rulings Hinge on 'Expectation of Privacy'Big Brother is watching. That is the message corporations routinely send their employees about ...
Compliance departments on red alert for insider trading
In the wake of the alleged insider-trading ring involving hedge fund manager Galleon Group, compliance departments at asset management firms and broker-dealers are stepping up their vigilance.As regulators increase their scrutiny of insider trading, ...
UK - Universal Knowledge?
UK - The British government has decided to go ahead with its plans under what it calls the Intercept Modernisation Programme to force every telecommunication company and Internet service provider to keep a record of all of its customers' personal com...
The Video Backlash Begins
UK - Councils have been criticised for using surveillance powers designed to combat serious crime and protect national security to spy on the public for minor crimes such as littering or unlawfully selling pot plants.They were also found to be using ...
Spyware Goes Legit
Australia - Distributors for new software that allows parents to spy on their children's text messages say they are still hopeful, as they try to get approval for their product.The software, which allows parents to see every text message their child ...
Wall Street gets Wiretaps
NY - US prosecutors who used wiretaps to make their insider trading case against billionaire Raj Rajaratnam, founder of hedge fund firm Galleon Group, said they would use similar tactics to fight future Wall Street crimes.The US attorney for Manhatta...
Wild West - No SpyCam Law in Colorado
CO - When it was discovered that a man had installed a hidden camera in a Denver Tech Center hotel room to watch the people staying next door, the only legal option for prosecutors was an audio surveillance law.Because Colorado law has not kept up wi...
Upon reading our Fujimori post...
Taiwan - President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) has ordered national security agencies to conduct a thorough investigation into allegations that wiretapping by intelligence agencies had become rampant since he took office and demanded severe punishment f...
SpyCam Story #558 - Missed Fujimori Post
Philippines - The Valenzuela city government will implement two ordinances next month that would regulate liquor businesses and requiring all establishments to install spy cameras within their premises. (more)FutureWatch...The beginning of a trend? L...
What\'s Your Counterespionage Strategy?
via Forbes.com...The biggest security breaches in corporations these days are employees who have been laid off or who are about to get laid off. When employees leave an organization on their own terms, particularly in good times, many companies scra...
Massachusetts - No Warrantless GPS Spying
Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling insists that police obtain a warrant before using GPS devices to spy on motorists.The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled that police officers need to obtain a warrant before using a Global Positioning Sat...
A Short History of Wiretapping and Ramifications
Communications Surveillance: Privacy and Security at Risk AS THE SOPHISTICATION OF WIRETAPPING TECHNOLOGY GROWS, SO TOO DO THE RISKS IT POSES TO OUR PRIVACY AND SECURITY. We all know the scene: It is the basement of an apartment building and the ligh...
US Wiretapping Law - No Equal Justice for All
The News... Police arrested a man they say caused a disturbance at a Honda dealership and who, it was later discovered, had been recording the exchange with a voice recorder in his pocket. Chi Quang Truong, 46, of 63 Flanders Road, Westborough, was a...
"Yes We Can”
via PCWorld.com... The chorus of folks singing "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" just got a little bigger and louder yesterday, after the Obama Administration issued "new" rules for border laptop searches that bear an uncanny resemblance to t...
You don't know her, but she could be...
...anybody sitting right near you. This time, she is: Alicia DeLeon-Torres, a Commissioner for the City of San Diego’s Commission on Gang Prevention and Intervention, and the National Director for National Asian Pacific American Families Against S...
