Foreign Policing News
For all news stories surrounding policing from countries other than the UK.
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Before posting news stories...Rules!
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This section of the forum is for you to post any foreign police stories that warrant serious discussion. Please note that due to copyright restrictions you must only include the title, the first line of the article and a link to the original article. Articles from the BBC can be posted in full, but must also include a link to the original article. So before posting an article from a newspaper please check to see if it is available from the BBC instead. We are allowed to post a limited number of Police Oracle articles, in full, each month. Therefore, if you want to share a Police Oracle story, please only include the first line of the article and a link to t…
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/canada-e2-80-99s-national-police-force-admits-use-of-spyware-to-hack-phones/ar-AAYZLsX In a “remarkable” disclosure, Canada’s national police force has described for the first time how it uses spyware to infiltrate mobile devices and collect data, including by remotely turning on the camera and microphone of a suspect’s phone or laptop. My view on this.. The public have known for a long time (even pre Snowden) that authorities have the capability to remotely activate cameras and hot mic phones, so don't think the information itself isn't particularly remarkable. The interesting part is that they are publicly acknowledgi…
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New An Garda Síochána uniform introduced
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New An Garda Síochána uniform introduced A new An Garda Síochána (Irish police) uniform has been introduced, swapping the shirt and tie for polo shirts and a two tone jacket. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60293170 The new soft-shell looks rather snazzy, I must say although everything else seems just a bit underwhelming.
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Macron announces 11 reforms for French police and gendarmerie Measures include doubling the number of police on streets, giving all officers body cameras, and increasing police powers to give fines https://www.connexionfrance.com/article/French-news/Macron-announces-11-reforms-for-French-police-and-gendarmerie Is anybody able to say how this differs from the approach taken in the UK or whether it is broadly in line with what we are doing. Is there anything the French do that would be good to consider applying in the UK?
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Ottawa wants to tackle ‘online harms.’ It’s still not clear what it’s going after, or how
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-ottawa-wants-to-tackle-online-harms-its-still-not-clear-what-its-going/ The Trudeau government went into the election last fall with two promises about “protecting Canadians from online harms.” Having won re-election, they’ve discovered that doing so is easier said than done. Ironic considering that Trudeau threatened to harm/kill peoples pets if they didn't get vaccinated. I'm not normally one to go in for conspiracy theories but it does seem like a lot of governments are pushing a very similar agenda right now, crackdowns on privacy, restrictions on what you can say online, more and more places go…
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7nmaz/post-office-cops-used-social-media-surveillance-program-illegally The United States Postal Inspection Service, the law enforcement arm of the post office, was “not legally authorized” to conduct blanket keyword searches of social media for terms such as “protest,” “attack,” and “destroy,” an inspector general investigation found, because it is only supposed to investigate cases with some connection to the post office or the mail.
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https://www.thelocal.de/20220111/german-police-under-fire-for-using-covid-tracing-app-to-find-witnesses/ German police drew criticism Tuesday for using an app to trace contacts from bars and restaurants in the fight against the pandemic as part of an investigation I can see why they think "if the data is there and can help in the investigation then why not use it". But equally, people were reassured that if they installed the app their data would only be used for public health reasons, not for police investigations. This might discourage people from using the app in future.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/18/facebook-lapd-social-media-surveillance-fake-accounts Facebook is demanding that the Los Angeles police department cease all use of “dummy” accounts on its platforms and stop collecting data on users for surveillance. Bit ironic Facebook asking others to stop spying on users, given their history
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https://www.wired.com/story/ddosecrets-police-helicopter-data-leak/ DDoSecrets published the trove Friday afternoon. Privacy advocates say it shows how pervasive law enforcement's eye has become, and how lax its data protection can be. Didn't a UK force get in a bit of trouble a while back when a helicopter took a picture of Michael Mcintyre and posted on Twitter?
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https://www.wired.com/story/geofence-warrants-google/ New figures from Google show a tenfold increase in the requests from law enforcement, which target anyone who happened to be in a given location at a specified time. Very opposed to this. Warrants for data should be very specific and limited only to individuals the police have grounds to suspect of a crime. Warrants to identify "everybody in a specific location" crosses the line and makes it a fishing trip, the exact thing warrants are supposed to prevent.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/08/revealed-los-angeles-police-officers-gathering-social-media The Los Angeles police department (LAPD) has directed its officers to collect the social media information of every civilian they interview, including individuals who are not arrested or accused of a crime, according to records shared with the Guardian. Would that be allowed here, or would there be issues with GDPR or RIPA?
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British Embassy Security
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[quote] Guards at Kabul embassy told they are ineligible for UK protection Exclusive: 125-strong team hired through outsourced contractor given informal notice they no longer have jobs More than 100 guards at the British embassy in Kabul have been told they are not eligible for UK government protection because they were hired through an outsourced contractor, the Guardian has learned. Most of the 125-strong team of security personnel, employed by the global security firm GardaWorld, have been given informal notice that they no longer have jobs guarding the embassy, several said. The guards, some of whom had…
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"Law enforcement agencies across Europe, the US, and Oceania revealed Anom’s origins earlier today, saying they had arrested 800 criminal suspects based on intercepted communications." Interesting piece. The police have taken down encrypted messaging apps in the past, seized servers etc, but this seems to be the first time they have actually set up their own specific app from the beginning with this intention. It functioned as most encrypted messaging apps do, except hidden away in the code was a secret master key that allowed the police to decrypt any of the messages. This shows the dangers in trusting any encryption software that doesn't let you inspect the …
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https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-health-coronavirus-pandemic-business-technology-e4266250f7e2d691d4d664735c2c6bc0 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Law enforcement agencies across the U.S. have used facial recognition technology to solve homicides and bust human traffickers, but concern about its accuracy and the growing pervasiveness of video surveillance is leading some state lawmakers to hit the pause button.
