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“If an #engineer released traditional #malware that #hacked websites, #stole proprietary data, or #scraped illegal imagery, law enforcement would not debate existential risk—they would issue an arrest #warrant. Yet, leading #AILabs like #OpenAI, #Anthropic, and #SpaceX / #xAI get a pass by pushing doomsday sci-fi narratives and lobbying for toothless oversight panels instead of standard #CorporateCriminal #liability.” — #InternetOfBugs#OpEd / #AI

Police watchdog investigating death in Brockville, Ont., Thursday Ontario Provincial Police say someone died after police used a firearm while carrying out a search warrant in Brockville on Thursday evening.

Let's talk about Sam #Tunick. Sam is an #Atlanta activist with Defend the Atlanta Forest, aka Stop Cop City. SCC had great #infosec, and the feds were hoping to bypass need for a #warrant by using border patrol. Most news stories are missing the fact that this was an #FBI action using #ICE as cover. FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force Officer Burnham and Special Agent Andrea Coble arranged for US CPB to question him and search his phone when he landed. The unidentified searching officer in the indictment serves on #CBP Tactical Terrorism Response Team, which allegedly gave FBI access to a search power they would not ordinarily possess inside the country. Sam was refused an attorney and told he couldn't enter the country until "those guys were done with him", or he unlocked his phone...so he gave them an unlock code that wiped the phone. Now they are charging him with "destruction of evidence". Sam's filing https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.351975/gov.uscourts.gand.351975.21.0.pdf Red String https://21stcenturywire.com/2026/07/27/the-tunick-exception-when-the-fbi-put-constitutional-rights-on-hold-at-the-border/ #4th #5th #Kafka

The #FourthCircuit Says #Border Agents Can #Search Your #Phone By Hand, No Suspicion Required The Fourth Circuit issued a disappointing opinion in U.S. v. Belmonte Cardozo, a case in which @eff@mastodon.social filed an amicus brief, alongside the national #ACLU, its #Maryland , #NorthCarolina , #SouthCarolina , and #Virginia affiliates, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (#NACDL ). We argued that electronic device searches at the border should require a #warrant based on probable cause, but at minimum, regardless of whether an officer searches by hand or with #forensic software that plugs into a device and downloads its entire contents for search, the same #FourthAmendment standard should apply to all device searches at the border. #privacy

US Police Now Armed With #Israeli #Spy Vans Simulating #MobilePhone Towers If you thought #Flock was bad check out #Falconet. Falconet from Israeli company #Cognyte serves as a cell tower simulator that intercepts cell phone data from all devices within range. #Police mount these systems in Tahoes so the vehicles can collect information while driving through areas without any direct interaction with targets. This mobile approach generates ongoing records of phone locations and communications for everyone nearby rather than only suspects, which creates comprehensive movement profiles and bypasses traditional #warrant requirements under the #FourthAmendment. #privacy #security #surveillance

FBI’s Search of #Georgia #Election Center Is “Dangerous,” Experts Warn When the #FBI executed a #warrant on Wednesday to seize records from the 2020 presidential vote in #FultonCounty , Georgia, it marked both an extraordinary event in the history of American #elections and a significant escalation in President Donald Trump’s breaking of #democratic norms, several legal experts said. #Trump