Hacker News with Generative AI: Law Enforcement

Drug-Sniffing Dogs Are Wrong More Often Than Right (npr.org)
The Chicago Tribune sifted through three years worth of cases in which law enforcement used dogs to sniff out drugs in cars in suburban Chicago. According to the analysis, officers found drugs or paraphernalia in only 44 percent of cases in which the dogs had alerted them.

Law Enforcement, Drugs, Statistics, Canine Detection

14 points by Anon84 31 days ago | 2 comments

Britain's police are restricting speech in worrying ways (economist.com)

UK, Law Enforcement

149 points by gorwell 32 days ago | 169 comments

TeleMessage Customers Include DC Police, Andreessen Horowitz, JP Morgan,Hundreds (micahflee.com)
I've been digging through the 410 GB of Java heap dumps from TeleMessage's archive server, provided by DDoSecrets. Here's a description of the dataset, some of my initial findings, details about an upcoming open source research tool I'm going to release, and a huge list of potential TeleMessage customers.

Data Breaches, Privacy, Law Enforcement, Finance, Technology

176 points by Bluestein 32 days ago | 1 comments

Piracy Operation COLLECTiVE Dismantled, Uploader 'Will1869' Arrested in UK (torrentfreak.com)
Popular torrent site uploader Will1869, known for releases tagged as 'COLLECTiVE', has been arrested by police in the UK. He specialized in distributing recent movies that were typically sourced elsewhere. COLLECTiVE torrents were shared on public portals including 1337x and also appeared on the home site, Laidbackmanor, which was also shut down by police.

Piracy, Law Enforcement, Entertainment, Torrenting

6 points by swat535 34 days ago | 1 comments

Live facial recognition cameras may become 'commonplace' as police use soars (theguardian.com)
Police believe live facial recognition cameras may become “commonplace” in England and Wales, according to internal documents, with the number of faces scanned having doubled to nearly 5m in the last year.

Surveillance, Privacy, Facial Recognition, Law Enforcement, Technology

166 points by c-oreills 34 days ago | 143 comments

Arrests "imminent" in eXch money laundering case after crypto seizure (monero.forex)
eXch, an instant crypto exchange long preferred by users desiring privacy, has abruptly and unexpectedly announced that they are shutting down their service.

Cryptocurrency, Finance, Law Enforcement, Privacy

11 points by lennychanuk 36 days ago | 0 comments

Hydra: Vehicles on the island – 'After the works they abandon them here' (protothema.gr)
“A paradise for walkers and nature lovers.” That’s how the Municipality describes Hydra on its website, promoting the island’s uniqueness, where the movement of all wheeled vehicles is prohibited by law. However, laws are made to be broken—especially when there is no one responsible or interested in enforcing them. Thus, this otherwise beautiful island, rich in archaeological and natural treasures and boasting unique architecture, has become filled with cars, motorcycles, bicycles, and of course, scooters, which are trendier than walking.

Greece, Transportation, Environmental Issues, Tourism, Law Enforcement

38 points by gnabgib 36 days ago | 35 comments

Teens Almost Got Away with Murder. Then Police Found Their Google Searches (wired.com)
Amadou Sow woke to the shrieking of smoke detectors. It was a little after 2:30 am on August 5, 2020, and his house in the suburbs of Denver, Colorado, was ablaze.

Crime, Law Enforcement, Technology, Google Search

7 points by 01-_- 37 days ago | 0 comments

'A Billion Streams and No Fans': Inside a $10M AI Music Fraud Case (wired.com)
Almost no one hits it big in music. The odds are so bad it’s criminal. But on a late spring evening in Louisville, Kentucky, Mike Smith and Jonathan Hay were having that rare golden moment when everything clicks.

Music Industry, Artificial Intelligence, Fraud, Law Enforcement

12 points by tosh 38 days ago | 1 comments

SEC SIM-swapper who Googled 'signs that the FBI is after you' put behind bars (theregister.com)
An Alabama man who SIM-swapped his way into the SEC's official X account, enabling a fake ETF announcement that briefly pumped Bitcoin, has been sentenced to 14 months in prison and three years of supervised release.

Cybersecurity, Law Enforcement, Cryptocurrency, Social Media

21 points by gslin 39 days ago | 5 comments

Oregon spent funds meant for addiction services on prosecutors, police gadgets (theguardian.com)
The state of Oregon, which has long struggled with one of the worst drug-addiction crises in the US, last year announced $20m in grants to help connect people to substance-use services.

Addiction, Law Enforcement, Public Spending, Oregon, Social Issues

28 points by c420 39 days ago | 7 comments

Italy Fines over 2,200 Pirate IPTV Subscribers in New Crackdown (torrentfreak.com)
Italy has intensified its fight against IPTV piracy by issuing fines direct to subscribers whose details were linked to a criminal investigation.

IPTV, Piracy, Italy, Law Enforcement, Copyright

3 points by gslin 39 days ago | 0 comments

Traffic Enforcement Dwindled in the Pandemic. In Many Places, It Hasnt Come Back (nytimes.com)
In the early days of the pandemic in 2020, traffic stops by the police plummeted around the country, as fewer cars were on the road and as agencies instructed officers to avoid nonessential contact with the public.

Traffic Enforcement, Pandemic, Law Enforcement, Crime

16 points by Michelangelo11 40 days ago | 4 comments

Kingston Police's use of a drone to catch distracted drivers stirs backlash (cbc.ca)

Police, Drones, Privacy, Law Enforcement, Technology

7 points by awnird 41 days ago | 1 comments

Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law (techradar.com)

Privacy, Switzerland, Law Enforcement, Technology, Cybersecurity

492 points by taubek 41 days ago | 227 comments

A new type of AI is helping police skirt facial recognition bans (technologyreview.com)
Police and federal agencies have found a controversial new way to skirt the growing patchwork of laws that curb how they use facial recognition: an AI model that can track people using attributes like body size, gender, hair color and style, clothing, and accessories.

Artificial Intelligence, Law Enforcement, Privacy, Facial Recognition, Surveillance

9 points by walterbell 43 days ago | 0 comments

What the government tried to keep hidden in IRS/ICE data sharing agreement (americanoversight.org)
On Tuesday, a controversial agreement between the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and immigration authorities that had been shrouded in secrecy was finally made available to the public in its near entirety, thanks to American Oversight’s successful efforts in ongoing litigation.

Government Transparency, Law Enforcement, Immigration, IRS

6 points by anigbrowl 44 days ago | 1 comments

'Crime Bingo' Results in 9 Montana Felony Cases Being Thrown Out (cowboystatedaily.com)
Nine felony cases connected to a game of “Crime Bingo” played by Bozeman Police Department officers will not be prosecuted, said Gallatin County Attorney Audrey Cromwell.

Law Enforcement, Montana, Crime, Legal Cases

7 points by Bender 45 days ago | 0 comments

Two Claiming to Be Trump Appointees Blocked from Entering US Copyright Office (wired.com)
Two men claiming to be newly appointed Trump administration officials tried to enter the US Copyright Office in Washington, DC, on Monday, but left before gaining access to the building, sources tell WIRED.

Politics, Government, Security, Law Enforcement

12 points by gmcharlt 46 days ago | 1 comments

Nearly 60 cases dismissed due to corruption in Alabama police department (apnews.com)
Pope Leo XIV celebrates first Mass as details emerge of how votes coalesced in secret conclave

Corruption, Law Enforcement, Alabama, Politics, Religion

14 points by miles 49 days ago | 2 comments

Florida bill requiring encryption backdoors for social media accounts has failed (techcrunch.com)
A Florida bill, which would have required social media companies to provide an encryption backdoor for allowing police to access user accounts and private messages, has failed to pass into law.

Privacy, Legislation, Social Media, Law Enforcement

12 points by speckx 49 days ago | 0 comments

Law Enforcement Seizes 9 DDoS-for-Hire Webpages as Part of Global Crackdown (justice.gov)
The Justice Department today announced the court-authorized seizure of nine internet domains associated with some of the world’s leading DDoS-for-hire services.

Cybersecurity, Law Enforcement, DDoS Attacks, Internet Crime

5 points by oavioklein 50 days ago | 0 comments

ICE Arrests Workers Involved in Landmark Labor Rights Case (theintercept.com)
An immigration raid in western New York on Friday targeted a group of immigrants involved in a landmark statewide effort by farm workers to unionize.

Immigration, Labor Rights, Unions, Law Enforcement

23 points by _tk_ 51 days ago | 4 comments

"Police state" search got censored in Italy (ycombinator.com)
In recent years, the Italian government has been applying laws "to ensure security" considered by many different methods to restrict the freedom of citizens, easily condemn at will people considered hostile (as with the new law that allows to arrest anyone who tests positive for substances in the table of illegal substances while driving in any case, without the person being actually altered or alterable) and in fact making Italy more and more a police state.

Italy, Censorship, Law Enforcement, Human Rights

28 points by richsnipe 51 days ago | 11 comments

The DEA is now abandoning body cameras (propublica.org)
The Drug Enforcement Administration has quietly ended its body camera program barely four years after it began, according to an internal email obtained by ProPublica.

Law Enforcement, Government, Surveillance, Technology

164 points by bookofjoe 52 days ago | 67 comments

More Than 5k People Are on a NY State Police Gang Database (thecity.nyc)
As President Donald Trump’s administration rounds up hundreds of immigrants it claims are gang members and expels them to a notorious Salvadoran prison, New York state is quietly feeding federal authorities gang intelligence that could fuel the administration’s rapidly expanding, extrajudicial deportation machine.

Gang Databases, Law Enforcement, Immigration, Human Rights

3 points by geox 52 days ago | 0 comments

New Order Sparks 'Martial Law' Concerns (newsweek.com)
President Donald Trump has ordered federal agencies to increase the flow of military and national security equipment to local law enforcement, a move that has raised concerns about the militarization of policing across the United States.

Politics, Law Enforcement, Military, United States

17 points by andrewfromx 57 days ago | 0 comments

Tracking Earbuds Helped Wyoming Trooper Catch Man Who Took Off with Utah Teen (cowboystatedaily.com)
Using tracking data from a 17-year-old girl’s earbuds, and a photograph, a Wyoming Highway Patrol trooper caught a 33-year-old man Sunday accused of taking the girl from her Utah hometown without her parents’ consent, authorities say.

Crime, Technology, Law Enforcement, Missing Persons

4 points by Bender 58 days ago | 0 comments

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

61 points by theahura 60 days ago | 20 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 60 days ago | 0 comments