Foreign Policing News
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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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The funeral of RCMP Constable Shaelyn Yang, British Columbia, Canada
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Burnaby RCMP Const. Shaelyn Yang, who was fatally stabbed in the line of duty, was honoured during a regimental funeral on Wednesday. The service included more than 2,000 first responders who marched in the funeral procession and at least 1,500 other first responders who were at the Oval for the funeral service. Const. Shaelyn Yang was killed on Oct. 18 while accompanying a parks employee to speak with a man living in a tent in Burnaby’s Broadview Park. Jongwon Ham has been charged with first-degree murder in her death. Yang was three years into her career with the RCMP and served on the Burnaby detachment’s mental health and homeless outreach team. Every police departmen…
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National Police Memorial Day - Australia
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The National Carillon in Canberra is honouring the memory of eight Australian officers who died in the line of duty between 2020 to 2022, with a light projection of their faces.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2022-09-27/facial-recognition-technology-model-law/101474010 Civil society groups are urging the federal government to take up a model law that would govern the use of facial recognition technology in Australia, where legislative loopholes risk creating a "Wild West".
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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/09/cops-wanted-to-keep-mass-surveillance-app-secret-privacy-advocates-refused/ Fog Reveal is "almost invisible" when attempting to search for it online. Might make people reconsider how many apps they gave location permission too, or alternatively switching it off altogether when not needed.
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How the FBI Wiretapped the World
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkgbpn/how-the-fbi-wiretapped-the-world On this episode of Cyber, Motherboard Senior Staff Writer Joseph Cox comes on to discuss the code that powered the Anom phone Similarities with the Encro phone situation except Anom was always a police honeypot operation right from the start as opposed to a genuine company that had its phones compromised. Defence lawyers in a case involving Anom want to examine the code on the phone to verify what it does and how it works and they've been told they won't be allowed. In the UK how would this work, is this one of the times public interest immunity might be used?
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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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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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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?
