How Technology Helped Solve and Commit Crime: Made it possible to spy and harass a woman and made it possible to catch four different criminals.

Uses technology to spy on woman, but iCloud evidence helped catch him

“A Wolverhampton stalker who relentlessly hounded a woman sending hundreds of threatening messages and hacking into her home CCTV has been jailed.”

Jordan Reynolds, “‘Extreme’ Wolverhampton stalker jailed after hacking into victim’s home CCTV,” Express and Star, October 24, 2020.

The Express and Star reports a man in Wolverhampton, England, was arrested on February 29th, 2020, after carrying out a massive, multifaceted campaign of stalking against a woman. 

The man “created 19 fake Instagram accounts, plus other bogus social media profiles, to bombard the woman with abuse from December last year. One of the messages he sent contained a video showing her relaxing at home in the lounge – and it quickly became evident he had hacked into her home security camera system to seize footage.”

The man’s iPhone also revealed that he had engaged in Internet searches of the woman’s name along with the phrases “log into iCloud without verification” and “free mobile phone tracker without user knowing.”

“U.S. Embassy Staffer Drugged & Molested Unconscious Women on Video“

The Federal government searched a U.S. Embassy staffer’s “phones, laptop, and iCloud account,” and discovered “hundreds of photos and videos of naked, unconscious women being abused in both Mexico City and the Washington, D.C., metro area.”

Justin Rohrlich, “U.S. Embassy Staffer Drugged & Molested Unconscious Women on Video,” The Daily Beast, October 27, 2020.

Carjackers of Uber and Lyft cars were caught after the driver’s iPhone was left in one of the cars

Hampton, Virginia: After a driver of a carjacked Uber had left his iPhone in the stolen car, the police traced the phone to the mother of one of the accused carjackers. A second carjacking of a rental car that was being used by a Lyft driver was traced by the car’s GPS tracker. Both signals showed a similar location. See Peter Dujardin, “Teenagers arrested in Uber, Lyft carjackings in Hampton,” Daily Press (Hampton, Virginia), November 10, 2020.