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How can a private individual report to INTERPOL?

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Police and law enforcement officials from any of INTERPOL's member countries can use INTERPOL's databases to run checks on people who maybe wanted, missing or needed for questioning. They can also use the database for other...more

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Employers Should No Longer Rely on Their Policies Alone to Support a Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Claim Against Current or Former...

On June 3, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in Van Buren v. U.S. addressing a long-standing circuit split on employee computer access limits under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). For many years the...more

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U.S. Customs Opens Mass Searches of Data on Confiscated Traveler Smartphones, Computers

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I am an advocate of providing law enforcement officers the newest technology to do their jobs well. If there is a recording of an event, the police should be able to use it. If a stingray can capture cell phone...more

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New Biometrics Lawsuits Signal Potential Legal Risks in AI

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In the last week, a new type of BIPA case has emerged that should be of interest to companies involved in using, improving, and developing facial recognition and other artificial intelligence (AI) using photos. Companies that...more

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INTERPOL’s tools and the increase in searches for wanted individuals

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According to INTERPOL’s most recent Annual Report, police worldwide searched INTERPOL’s databases 5.4 billion times in 2018 [this is an increase of 18% from 2017]. The increase may be due to the implementation of new systems,...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - November 2019

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Cyberliability insurance provider Beazley Insurance Company has analyzed its internal breach response data and determined that in its experience, there has been a thirty-seven percent (37%) increase in ransomware attacks this...more

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Stalemate in Use of DNA Profiles from Consumer Databases to Help Crack Cold Cases

More than a year ago, in April 2018, police announced that they had used a new investigative technique to arrest a man known as the Golden State Killer. For the first time, the police submitted DNA from a crime scene into a...more

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District Court Rules That Smartphone Passcodes Are Testimonial; Protected by Fifth Amendment

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In Securities and Exchange Commission v. Huang, the district court held that the Fifth Amendment protected two former employees against having to disclose their personal passcodes for company-issued smartphones to government...more

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Microsoft Ordered to Hand Over Data to the U.S. Government

In April, Microsoft tried to quash a search warrant from law enforcement agents in the United States (U.S.) that asked the technology company to produce the contents of one of its customer’s emails stored on a server located...more

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