Should Our Law Enforcement Be Embracing Darth Vader-like ethics? 🤔

How The Practices Of Hiding Illegal / Warrant-less #Surveillance Normalizes #police corruption

HOW? Enter #ParallelConstruction #testilying / false reports / discovery / 'fruit of poisonous tree'

Depriving defendant right to truly fair #trial 😞

#Law #privacy #USA #BillOfRights #HumanRights #federation #Justice #FISA #IMSIcatcher #stingray #geolocation

https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/01/09/dark-side/secret-origins-evidence-us-criminal-cases

Dark Side

This report documents the use of alternative explanations for how evidence was found, a practice known as “parallel construction.

^{Human Rights Watch}

@anonymiss

to me, #biometric unlocking, is unsafe, you see a lot of unauthorised unlocking from restrained, sleeping, dead, or drunken people from either face or fingerprint to unlock a device.

it was established a few years ago that law enforcement in the usa do not need a warrant for biometric unlocking, but need warrant if a password is enabled, to unlock a device.

#phone #thumbprint #court #usa #justice #privacy #security #smartphone #mobile #technology #news #police #surveillance

Cops can force suspect to unlock #phone with #thumbprint, US #court rules

Source: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/cops-can-force-suspect-to-unlock-phone-with-thumbprint-us-court-rules/

#usa #justice #privacy #security #smartphone #mobile #technology #news #police #surveillance

Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules

Ruling: Thumbprint scan is like a "blood draw or fingerprint taken at booking."

^{Ars Technica}

German #police officers making up a fictitious ban against #YanisVaroufakis, allegedly issued by the German #Ministry of the #Interior, and serving this lie straight to the face of two #lawyers?

Wow.
Just wow.

I'd like to see some answers from both the ministry and the #Berlin police.

https://diem25.org/chronicle-of-the-betatigungsverbot-against-yanis-varoufakis/

Chronicle of the Betätigungsverbot against Yanis Varoufakis - DiEM25 Communications

German authorities are struggling to distance themselves from their farcical authoritarianism

^{DiEM25 Communications (DiEM25)}

This is the path to totalitarian fascism.

"Private donors including big-box stores, fossil fuel companies, and tech giants are secretly giving hundreds of millions of dollars annually to law enforcement agencies and related foundations, allowing police to buy specialized weapons and technology with little public oversight.

Experts say this huge deluge of police “dark money” funding, detailed in a new University of Chicago working paper and in an additional analysis shared exclusively with the Lever, leaves law enforcement beholden to the companies and powerful donors bankrolling them, rather than the communities that officers are sworn to serve."

https://jacobin.com/2024/03/police-foundations-dark-money-donations/

#Police #Fascism #ACAB #Antifa #AntifaAF

Dark Money Is Paying for the Police’s High-Tech Weapons

Corporate donors are funneling hundreds of millions of dollars into police foundations without public oversight, allowing for the police to buy specialized surveillance technology and high-tech weapons that they might otherwise struggle to justify.

^jacobin.com

#NYC #subway testing out weapons detection #technology, Mayor Adams says

source: https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/nyc-subway-crime-weapons-detection-technology-mayor-eric-adams/

The technology-loving mayor is seeking bids from tech companies around the globe, but he had #police demonstrate one system in which a red box appears on an iPad if there's a #weapon, and shows where it is.

#news #NewYork #security #crime #politics #ai

NYC subway testing out weapons detection technology, Mayor Adams says

New York City plans to use new technology to detect weapons in the subway system.

^{Marcia Kramer (CBS New York)}

#SWAT Team Raids #Innocent Family Over Stolen #AirPods Dropped on Their Street

source: https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/swat-team-raids-innocent-family-over-stolen-airpods-dropped-on-their-street-42172867

The family, represented by Schock and Erich Vieth, is suing for damages stemming from embarrassment, unreasonable use of force, loss of liberty, and other factors. The lawsuit notes that neither Shamily or Briscoe had been in any trouble with the law for at least a dozen years prior to the incident. "There was no probable cause for the search warrant and had the affidavit contained complete information, the state court judge would not have approved the warrant," the suit alleges.

#police #fail #technology #gps #apple #theft #justice #news #usa

SWAT Team Raids Innocent Family Over Stolen AirPods Dropped on Their Street

A pair of AirPods and what lawyers say was some shoddy police work resulted in an innocent middle-class Ferguson family having their front door smashed in by the St. Louis County SWAT team last May. Around 6:30 p.m.

^{Ryan Krull (Riverfront Times)}

Serious #security breach hits #EU #police agency

Disappearance of sensitive files of top #law enforcement officials has sparked a crisis at #Europol.

Source: https://www.politico.eu/article/europol-internal-agency-eu-police-agency-engulfed-in-clean-up-over-missing-files/

#crime #problem #corruption #news #politics #europe

Serious security breach hits EU police agency

Disappearance of sensitive files of top law enforcement officials has sparked a crisis at Europol.

^{Antoaneta Roussi (POLITICO)}

NEW: Despite Elon Musk's criticism of gov surveillance...

X has been selling data for government surveillance.

By Sam Biddle, LINK: https://theintercept.com/2024/03/25/elon-musk-x-dataminr-surveillance-privacy/

#surveillance #infosec #twitter #X #elonmusk #Musk #espionage #Twitter #police #protest