New hi-tech US police surveillance/UK spying uses foreign loophole
The “StingRay” cell phone spying device By Clarence Walker From Global Research Blocked by a Supreme Court decision from using GPS tracking devices without a warrant, federal investigators and other law enforcement agencies are turning to a new, more powerful…
[Cayman] Caribbean-based advisers charged in money-laundering sting
By David Voreacos and Tom Schoenberg From Bloomberg Three Caribbean-based men who helped Americans hide assets from U.S. tax authorities were charged in a sting operation with laundering what they were told was dirty money. The U.S. indicted Eric St-Cyr,…
Obama has four options for revamping NSA phone surveillance, and none are ideal
By Margaret Hartmann From New York Magazine In his speech last month on post-Snowden changes to the NSA, President Obama said, “The challenge is getting the details right, and that’s not simple.” That’s apparent from the options Obama administration lawyers…