[ad_1] For years, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) hasn’t given a clear answer on whether it uses facial recognition in its policing work. That changed this week. On Monday, the agency told The Los Angeles Times it has used the technology nearly 30,000 times since late 2009. The LAPD uses the Los Angeles County Regional Identification […]
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Six people face charges for allegedly bribing Amazon staff to help sellers
[ad_1] The indicted include Rohit Kadmisetty, Nishad Kunju, Kristen Leccese, Joseph Nilsen, Hadis Nuhanovic and Ephraim Rosenberg. They all face charges for commercial bribery, accessing protected computers without authorization, and wire fraud. The group will make its first appearance in a Seattle court on October 15th. The case isn’t particularly well-timed for Amazon. The company […]
Malware writer pleads guilty to helping $568 million cybercrime ring
[ad_1] The group was created in 2010 and became a hub for thieves hoping to buy goods with fake and stolen payment cards. It was reportedly sophisticated, with members offering automated vending sites, a screening process and even an escrow service to help complete transactions. The Justice Department counted 10,901 registered members by March 2017. […]
FBI reportedly uses a travel company’s data for worldwide surveillance
[ad_1] The travel data has also been used to catch people like alleged card scam site operator Alexei Burkov, according to Forbes. Sabre hadn’t responded to requests for comment, while Kher’s counsel and the Justice Department declined comment. Sabre isn’t the only travel data giant (Amadeus and Travelport are the other two), and it has […]
Facial recognition linked to a second wrongful arrest by Detroit police
[ad_1] The perpetrator, who was recorded in footage captured on a phone, doesn’t look like Oliver. For one thing, he has tattoos on his arms, and there aren’t any visible on the person in the video. When Oliver’s attorney took photos of him to the victim and an assistant prosecutor, they agreed Oliver had been […]
Nigerians face US charges over online fraud worth ‘hundreds of millions’
[ad_1] US law enforcement is cracking down on a pair of alleged online fraudsters that appear to have been wildly successful. The United Arab Emirates has sent the US two Nigerian nationals, Ramon Olorunwa Abbas and Olakean Jacob Ponle, to face charges relating to large “business email compromise” scams. Abbas is accused of money laundering […]
Russian behind elite cybercrime forum sentenced to 9 years in prison
[ad_1] A particularly successful Russian hacker is about to serve time behind bars in the US. A federal judge has sentenced Aleksei Burkov, the operator of an elite cybercrime forum, to nine years in prison after pleading guilty in January to two device fraud charges. He’d faced up to 15 years in prison, but that […]
DOJ accuses WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of recruiting hackers
[ad_1] The Justice Department is levelling more accusations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange — though not new charges. Officials have filed a superseding indictment against Assange that maintains the earlier 18 counts of computer intrusion and Espionage Act violations, but adds claims that he recruited hackers, including people from Anonymous and LulzSec. Most notably, the […]
Boston bans police and city use of facial recognition software
[ad_1] The ban comes after software called DataWorks Plus and human error led to the wrongful arrest of a Black man in Detroit. Police arrested Robert Williams after the software incorrectly matched his driver’s license photo to security footage from the scene of a burglary. The incident is the first known instance of a wrongful […]
False facial recognition match leads to a wrongful arrest in Detroit
[ad_1] Many critics of police facial recognition use warn of the potential for racial bias that leads to false arrests, and unfortunately that appears to have happened. The ACLU has filed a complaint against Detroit police for the wrongful arrest of Robert Williams when a DataWorks Plus facial recognition system incorrectly matched security footage against […]