House conducts hearing on GPS Act A recent congressional hearing addressed the proposed Geolocational Privacy and Surveillance Act which would require a search warrant to obtain GPS or CSLI data from phone companies. The bill is authored by Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon). John Ramsey, of the Federal Law [...]
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A disagreement over a Facebook relationship status recently ended with gunshots being fired into the air outside a Georgia Waffle House. In February, a husband and wife unfriending someone on Facebook ended with that person’s father shooting the couple. As these events happen, they get a great deal of news coverage. The stories are [...]
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A Georgia federal district court has ordered suppression of evidence obtained from cell phones because of an unreasonable three month delay in searching the phones. United States v. Shaw, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 32624 (N.D. Ga. 2012). The phones had been searched incident to arrest and were placed into inventory. Months later, the [...]
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The Eleventh Circuit held that compelled production of unencrypted files violates the Fifth Amendment as it would be testimonial, and the “foregone conclusion” doctrine does not apply. In Re Grand Jury Subpoena Duces Tecum Dated March 25, 2011, 671 F.3d 1335 (11th Cir. 2012). The case began with a child pornography [...]
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The Colorado District Court is the latest to weigh in on the popular issue of whether a person can be forced to disclose a password or unencrypted files. In United States v. Fricosu, the court found that the defendant’s Fifth Amendment right is not implicated by requiring production of an unencrypted version of the files. 2012 U.S. [...]
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Cybercrimes are a constant threat as criminals seek to take advantage of online users. The COVID-19 pandemic is no exception. Cybercrimes are crimes involving the use of a computer, a computer system, the internet, or any sort of computer technology. The computer itself may be the target of the crime or the entire network it runs on [...]
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Cyber crimes are a growing problem all over the world. The chart below shows the annual cost of cyber crimes to businesses in different countries around the globe. As we can see from the chart below, the United States leads the way with $27.37 million. Here is the data that is visualized in the chart […]
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Which states reported the most cyber crimes to the FBI in 2018? The map below shows the total number of cyber crimes reported for each state. If you hover over the map, you can see the total percentage that each state had across the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Naturally, the states with […]
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Cyber crimes are growing at a rapid pace. Below are cyber crime statistics you should know about: Cyber crimes are the fastest growing crime in the United States More than 2 billion person records are stolen every year The average number of security breaches per organization was 145 in 2018 The average number of security […]
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According to data from the The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), the #1 type of fraud by total dollar loss was Confidence Fraud/Romance Fraud in 2018 for a total of nearly $204 million. Second on the list was BEC/EAC fraud (Business Email Compromise/Email Account Compromise) for nearly $193.5 million. BEC/EAC fraud [...]
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