Technology is at least making the lives of some criminals more difficult. A 31-year-old Pompton Lakes man is accused of using an airsoft gun to hold a young woman captive in her West Milford home while he rifled through her possessions and demanded thousands of...
This is an interesting case where technology not only made the crime possible, but it also made it easy for the police to catch the criminal. Florida man 'attached an iPhone to a robbery victim's car before using its location settings to track him down and steal more...
Suspect's iPhone used to slave the arson of two police cars Forbes reports how iCloud data from a suspect's iPhone 7 allowed the FBI, to apprehend a man accused of firebombing two police cars in Seattle. The firebombing took place on May 30th, 2020. The...
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...
Technology doesn't always protect citizens. In 2019, Apple pulled an App that allowed demonstrators to monitor the Hong Kong Police. Law enforcement can obtain Ring doorbell video without a warrant. While Amazon is doing that to help stop crime, there...
Unlike Android, Apple has figured out a way to discourage people from stealing iPhones. As the number of iPhones stolen in looting increases, thieves are going to try selling them — but Apple has disabled all of them.There is a reason professional thieves steal...
One more thing for taxpayers to worry about. From the Daily Caller: . . . A redacted IRS letter dated Sept. 8, 2011 reveals that at least in one case the IRS’s examiners used photos of a property, obtained through Google Maps, as evidence to revoke the 501(c)(4)...
Technology has made it very difficult to steal cars made after about 2000. The old cars that can be stolen are not very valuable. If it wasn't for old Hondas retaining some of their value, auto theft would be down even further. From the New York...