Hacker News with Generative AI: Law Enforcement

The latest executive order creates a police state (whitehouse.gov)
Safe communities rely on the backbone and heroism of a tough and well-equipped police force.
Politics, Law Enforcement, Public Safety
56 points by theahura 21 hours ago | 18 comments
They Stole a Quarter-Billion in Crypto and Got Caught Within a Month (nytimes.com)
In the balmy late afternoon of Aug. 25, 2024, Sushil and Radhika Chetal were house-hunting in Danbury, Conn., in an upscale neighborhood of manicured yards and heated pools.
Cryptocurrency, Crime, Law Enforcement
8 points by paulpauper 1 day ago | 0 comments
They Stole a Quarter-Billion in Crypto and Got Caught Within a Month (nytimes.com)
In the balmy late afternoon of Aug. 25, 2024, Sushil and Radhika Chetal were house-hunting in Danbury, Conn., in an upscale neighborhood of manicured yards and heated pools.
Cryptocurrency, Crime, Security, Law Enforcement
15 points by otterley 5 days ago | 2 comments
'Fighting crime blindfolded': Europe is coming after encryption (politico.eu)
Encryption, Privacy, Europe, Crime, Law Enforcement
17 points by c420 6 days ago | 6 comments
2024 FBI Internet Crime Report [pdf] (ic3.gov)
Cybersecurity, Law Enforcement, Government Reports
6 points by gnabgib 6 days ago | 0 comments
FBI Claims It Lost Records About Its Mysterious Hacking Abilities (gizmodo.com)
The FBI recently spent hundreds of thousands of dollars buying powerful hacking tools but now the agency claims that it can’t find the documentation associated with those procurements.
Government, Security, Hacking, Law Enforcement
12 points by fortran77 7 days ago | 0 comments
Why California's dangerous drivers get to keep their licenses (calmatters.org)
The California Department of Motor Vehicles routinely allows drivers like these — with horrifying histories of dangerous driving, including DUIs, crashes and numerous tickets — to continue to operate on our roadways, a CalMatters investigation has found. Too often they go on to kill. Many keep driving even after they kill. Some go on to kill again.
Traffic Safety, California, Law Enforcement, Accidents
18 points by colinprince 7 days ago | 7 comments
Samurai Cops: Inside Edo's Police Force During Feudal Japan (tokyoweekender.com)
After Tokugawa Ieyasu unified Japan, established the Tokugawa shogunate, and moved the capital to Edo — modern-day Tokyo — in the early 17th century, he ended hundreds of years of civil war and senseless killings. Weirdly, though, people still kept murdering each other. Plus, there were all these other crimes being committed all over the city. 
History, Japan, Law Enforcement, Crime
28 points by cdplayer96 9 days ago | 6 comments
Feds confuse the case of crypto Ponzi schemers (seattletimes.com)
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security last week sent a letter to two Estonian men telling them to leave the U.S. “immediately.”
Cryptocurrency, Law Enforcement, Estonia
14 points by petethomas 11 days ago | 1 comments
Palmer Raids (wikipedia.org)
The Palmer Raids were a series of raids conducted in November 1919 and January 1920 by the United States Department of Justice under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson to capture and arrest suspected socialists, especially anarchists and communists, and deport them from the United States.
History, Politics, United States, Law Enforcement
6 points by hackandthink 11 days ago | 0 comments
Florida's New Social Media Bill Demands an Encryption Backdoor (techdirt.com)
At least Florida’s SB 868/HB 743, “Social Media Use By Minors” bill isn’t beating around the bush when it states that it would require “social media platforms to provide a mechanism to decrypt end-to-end encryption when law enforcement obtains a subpoena.”
Florida, Social Media, Encryption, Law Enforcement, Legislation
11 points by latexr 12 days ago | 0 comments
FCC chief targets Comcast-owned outlets over 'news distortion' (thehill.com)
The Federal Communications Commission chief blasted news outlets owned by Comcast over their coverage of a case involving a mistakenly deported Salvadoran immigrant who the Trump administration contends is a gang member.
Politics, Media, Immigration, Law Enforcement
15 points by nickthegreek 12 days ago | 5 comments
This 'College Protester' Isn't Real. It's an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops (wired.com)
American police departments near the United States-Mexico border are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for an unproven and secretive technology that uses AI-generated online personas designed to interact with and collect intelligence on “college protesters,” “radicalized” political activists, and suspected drug and human traffickers, according to internal documents, contracts, and communications that 404 Media obtained via public records requests.
Artificial Intelligence, Surveillance, Law Enforcement, Political Activism
235 points by colinprince 13 days ago | 227 comments
'Homegrowns are next': Trump hopes to deport and jail U.S. citizens abroad (text.npr.org)
President Trump says his administration is actively exploring a proposal to detain U.S. citizens and send them to prisons in El Salvador.
Politics, Immigration, Law Enforcement, Human Rights, United States
38 points by thowaway7564902 13 days ago | 4 comments
ICE Agents Realize They Arrested Wrong Teen, Say 'Take Him Anyway' (newsweek.com)
Federal immigration authorities apprehended a 19-year-old in New York despite realizing he was not the intended target.
Immigration, Law Enforcement, Misconduct, New York, US Politics
168 points by angryantant 15 days ago | 85 comments
Philosophy Major Snatched by ICE During Citizenship Interview (dailynous.com)
Mohsen Mahdawi, a philosophy major at Columbia University who is due to graduate later this semester, was attending a US citizenship application interview in Vermont on Monday when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents wearing hoods and masks took him from the building, put him into an unmarked car, and drove off.
Immigration, Law Enforcement, Education, Philosophy
139 points by mdp2021 15 days ago | 105 comments
License to Kill (calmatters.org)
The California Department of Motor Vehicles routinely allows drivers like these — with horrifying histories of dangerous driving, including DUIs, crashes and numerous tickets — to continue to operate on our roadways, a CalMatters investigation has found. Too often they go on to kill. Many keep driving even after they kill. Some go on to kill again.
Traffic Safety, California, Law Enforcement, Accidents
7 points by kumarski 15 days ago | 1 comments
India to Consider Blocking Wikipedia (hindustantimes.com)
The Maharashtra police’s cyber cell has written to the central government requesting it to block Wikipedia and Proton Mail due to their “repeated non-compliance” with the Information Technology Act despite being sent “multiple legal notices and warnings” regarding objectionable content and misuse for serious criminal activities.
India, Wikipedia, Censorship, Law Enforcement, Information Technology
9 points by argilla 16 days ago | 0 comments
Pro-Palestinian protester's lawyer stopped and searched at US border (theguardian.com)
Amir Makled thought he was being racially profiled. A Lebanese American who was born and raised in Detroit, the attorney was returning home from a family vacation in the Dominican Republic when he said an immigration official at the Detroit Metro airport asked for a “TTRT” agent after scanning his passport on Sunday. Makled said the expression on the agent’s face changed. He felt something “odd” was happening.
Politics, Law Enforcement, Racial Profiling, Immigration
16 points by c420 18 days ago | 0 comments
UK creating 'murder prediction' tool to identify people most likely to kill (theguardian.com)
The UK government is developing a “murder prediction” programme which it hopes can use personal data of those known to the authorities to identify the people most likely to become killers.
Artificial Intelligence, Crime, Law Enforcement, Privacy, UK
4 points by amichail 19 days ago | 0 comments
IRS agrees to send immigrant tax data to ICE for enforcement (apnews.com)
The roof collapses at a Dominican Republic nightclub, killing at least 98 people
Immigration, Law Enforcement, Government, Dominican Republic, Nightclub
8 points by Anon84 21 days ago | 0 comments
UK creating 'murder prediction' tool to identify people most likely to kill (theguardian.com)
The UK government is developing a “murder prediction” programme which it hopes can use personal data of those known to the authorities to identify the people most likely to become killers.
Crime, Predictive Policing, Artificial Intelligence, Law Enforcement, Data Privacy
17 points by molteanu 21 days ago | 3 comments
IRS Agrees to Share Migrants' Tax Information with ICE (nytimes.com)
The Internal Revenue Service has agreed to help homeland security officials find immigrants they are trying to deport, according to court records, committing to sharing information in what would be a fundamental change in how the tax collector uses its tightly regulated records.
Immigration, Government, Law Enforcement, Privacy
11 points by speckx 21 days ago | 3 comments
Third Grade Student Arrested by ICE Sparks Mass Protest (newsweek.com)
The detention of a third-grade student and his family by federal immigration authorities has drawn widespread criticism from community members and immigrant rights advocates, culminating in a protest Saturday where around a thousand people marched to border czar Tom Homan's home in a small New York village, calling for their release.
Immigration, Protests, Politics, Law Enforcement
8 points by lawn 22 days ago | 0 comments
The 'Judicial Black Hole' of El Salvador's Prisons Is a Warning for Americans (rollingstone.com)
On March 27, 2022, on the heels of a weekend marked by dozens of gang-related murders, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele and his legislature plunged the country into a régimen de excepción — a state of exception — and declared war against the gangs.
El Salvador, Prisons, Law Enforcement, Politics, Human Rights
327 points by Avshalom 25 days ago | 193 comments
Proton provided user information in 10,368 requests in 2024 (proton.me)
From time to time, Proton may be legally compelled to disclose certain user information to Swiss authorities, as detailed in our Privacy Policy. This can happen if Swiss law is broken. As stated in our Privacy Policy, all emails, files and invites are encrypted and we have no means to decrypt them.
Privacy, Data Security, Switzerland, Law Enforcement
8 points by argilla 26 days ago | 1 comments
European Commission pushes for encryption 'backdoors' (brusselssignal.eu)
The European Commission has announced new plans for extending the powers of European Union security agencies and expanding Europol into “a truly operational police agency”.
Encryption, Privacy, Law Enforcement, Europe, Security
6 points by nickslaughter02 26 days ago | 1 comments
US tourist arrested for landing on forbidden Indian tribal island (theguardian.com)
Indian police said on Thursday they had arrested a US tourist who sneaked on to a highly restricted island carrying a coconut and a can of Diet Coke to a tribe untouched by the industrial world.
Tourism, Law Enforcement, Indigenous Peoples, Culture
10 points by n1b0m 26 days ago | 3 comments
Ask HN: For the privacy minded, How do you prepare for gadget Border Searches? (ycombinator.com)
This is coming up a lot these days in the news- but Customs and Border Patrol have increased the amount of searches they do for travelers coming to and leaving the US. I find this fascinating- because it feels like an area that should have answers -but that there are only some.
Privacy, Security, Travel, Technology, Law Enforcement
26 points by OrbitalShotput_ 27 days ago | 20 comments
Global scam industry evolving at 'unprecedented scale' despite recent crackdown (cnn.com)
Global Crime, Scams, Cybercrime, Economics, Law Enforcement
8 points by kingforaday 27 days ago | 3 comments