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| Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 21:57:40 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Cop charged with stealing nude pics from women's phones
Message-ID: <p06240817d07f42784b91@[172.16.42.6]>
Cop charged with stealing nude pics from women's phones
California Highway Patrol officer suspect: image trading was a
years-old "game."
by Cyrus Farivar
Oct 31 2014
Ars Technica
Prosecutors in Contra Costa County, directly across the bay from San
Francisco, have filed criminal felony charges against a former
California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer, Sean Harrington, who is
accused of seizing and distributing racy photos copied from
arrestees' phones.
...
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/10/cop-charged-with-stealing-nude-pics-from-womens-phones/
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| Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 21:53:10 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Virginia judge: Police can demand a suspect unlock a phone with a fingerprint
Message-ID: <p06240816d07f416b0c92@[172.16.42.6]>
Virginia judge: Police can demand a suspect unlock a phone with a fingerprint
But passcodes need not be divulged as per the Fifth Amendment, court says.
by Megan Geuss
Oct 31 2014
Ars Technica
A Virginia Circuit Court judge ruled on Thursday that a person does
not need to provide a passcode to unlock their phone for the police.
The court also ruled that demanding a suspect to provide a
fingerprint to unlock a phone would be constitutional.
...
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/10/virginia-judge-police-can-demand-a-suspect-unlock-a-phone-with-a-fingerprint/
***** Moderator's Note *****
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise
infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand
Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the
militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor
shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in
jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case
to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or
property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be
taken for public use without just compensation.
IANALB, I'm not sure which part of the Fifth Amendment applies more:
"private property" being taken for "public use", or self-incrimination,
or the lack of any due process.
Bill Horne
Moderator
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| Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 21:50:23 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Google ordered to pay a woman $2,250 for Street View image showing cleavage
Message-ID: <p06240814d07f40cde78a@[172.16.42.6]>
Google ordered to pay a woman $2,250 for Street View image showing cleavage
Although her face was blurred out, image had "part of her breast exposed."
by Megan Geuss
Oct 30 2014
Ars Technica
Earlier this month, a Quebecois court in Montreal decided that Google
owed a woman $2,250 for picturing her with "part of her breast
exposed" in a Street View image. The woman was sitting in front of
her house, and although her face was blurred out, she was still
identifiable by her coworkers, especially as her car was parked in
the driveway without the license plate blurred out.
...
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/10/google-ordered-to-pay-a-woman-2250-for-street-view-image-showing-cleavage/
***** Moderator's Note *****
This is a slippery slope again. Are people who were sneezing at the
time the Google car drove by allowed to collect damages? How about
those wearing last year's fashion? Someone with a bad haircut?
Bill Horne
Moderator
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| Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 21:59:08 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: After massive Danish hack, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg sentenced to 3.5 years
Message-ID: <p06240818d07f42c35d1d@[172.16.42.6]>
After massive Danish hack, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg sentenced to 3.5 years
His accomplice was sentenced to 6 months and was released for time served.
by Cyrus Farivar
Oct 31 2014
Ars Technica
After being convicted of "hacking and gross damage," Gottfrid
Svartholm Warg, better known by his nom de hacker "anakata," was
sentenced (Google Translate) to 3.5 years in prison by a Danish court
on Friday.
One day earlier, the Pirate Bay co-founder was found guilty of
illegally accessing the country's driver's license database (Google
Translate), social security database, and the shared IT system across
the Schengen zone, Europe's common passport regions. Using this
access, he obtained the e-mail accounts and passwords of 10,000
police officers and tax officials. All of that data was managed by
CSC, a large American IT contractor.
...
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/10/after-massive-danish-hack-gottfrid-svartholm-warg-sentenced-to-3-5-years/
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| Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 21:47:42 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: iOS 8.1.1 said to address iPhone 4S and iPad 2 performance problems
Message-ID: <p06240813d07f4033c38e@[172.16.42.6]>
iOS 8.1.1 said to address iPhone 4S and iPad 2 performance problems
When released, the update could fix one of iOS 8's worst regressions.
by Andrew Cunningham
Nov 4 2014
Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/11/ios-8-1-1-said-to-address-iphone-4s-and-ipad-2-performance-problems/
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| Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 23:04:47 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Virginia Police Have Been Secretively Stockpiling Private Phone Records
Message-ID: <p06240830d07f5232fb4e@[172.16.42.6]>
Virginia Police Have Been Secretively Stockpiling Private Phone Records
BY G.W. SCHULZ, CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
10.20.14
While revelations from Edward Snowden about the National Security
Agency's massive database of phone records have sparked a national
debate about its constitutionality, another secretive database has
gone largely unnoticed and without scrutiny.
The database, which affects unknown numbers of people, contains phone
records that at least five police agencies in southeast Virginia have
been collecting since 2012 and sharing with one another with little
oversight. Some of the data appears to have been obtained by police
from telecoms using only a subpoena, rather than a court order or
probable-cause warrant. Other information in the database comes from
mobile phones seized from suspects during an arrest.
...
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/virginia-police-secretively-stockpiling-private-phone-records/
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| Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 22:00:04 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Sprint dropping customers, losing money, and laying employees off
Message-ID: <p06240819d07f4314701b@[172.16.42.6]>
Sprint dropping customers, losing money, and laying employees off
But there's hope for T-Mobile, which added 1.8 million customers.
by Jon Brodkin
Nov 3 2014
Ars Technica
Sprint is losing money and laying off about 2,000 employees, the
company announced today. Despite new offers designed to undercut the
competition, Sprint lost 272,000 postpaid customers in the most
recent quarter.
...
http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/11/sprint-dropping-customers-losing-money-and-laying-employees-off/
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