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Don't miss today's packed Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Thai police blew up a Myanmar cyberscam compound,
--FCC blocks more Chinese-made devices,
--Hacking Team successor surfaces,
--Aisuru botnet overhauled to rent out IoT devices,
--Herodotus Android trojan mimics human behavior,
--Ad giant's subsidiary exposed data in cyber incident,
--CBP searches more devices than ever,
--ICE …

Thai police blew up a Myanmar cyberscam compound
FCC blocks more Chinese-made devices, Hacking Team successor surfaces, Aisuru botnet overhauled to rent out IoT devices, Herodotus Android trojan mimics human behavior, Ad giant's subsidiary exposed data in cyber incident, CBP searches more devices than ever, ICE is becoming a spymaster, much more

I have long felt that liberal/progressive messaging often tended towards not merely hyperbole, but hyperbole that carried far more than the intended message.
Consider the phrase "Defund the police". That carries a clear message that implies near elimination of police based law enforcement. Few of us want that. Police are an important element of an ordered society.
But pretty much all of us see that police are doing too much and that it is better to restructure police…

🪧 The Indonesian Protests Are a Revolt Against Oligarchy
#indonesia

The Indonesian Protests Are a Revolt Against Oligarchy
The Indonesian president, Prabowo, would like to turn the clock back to the dark days of the Suharto dictatorship. But he’s been confronted with an unexpected wave of protest after the killing of a young man by police in Jakarta, the country’s capital.

The Las Vegas police department rolled out a new fleet of tactical vehicles to city streets last month:
all Tesla Cybertrucks.
The steel cars, wrapped in black-and-white vinyl, come decked out with warning lights and flashing sirens on the roof.
They seem to be heftier, more angular versions of a traditional police car.
Las Vegas is the first city in the US to grant its officers access to a battalion of the futuristic trucks, which have become synonymous with the Te…

D.C. police to begin patrolling with National Guard after fatal attack (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/28/national-guard-dc-police/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251128/p49#a251128p49

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/us-citizen-assaulted-border-patrol-chicago-halloween-parade-b2853988.html
“The agents threatened to break his window if he didn’t m…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Radiohead:
🎵 Karma Police
#Radiohead
https://jiyongsangel.bandcamp.com/track/karma-police
https://open.spotify.com/track/63OQupATfueTdZMWTxW03A

Armed police handcuff teen after AI mistakes crisp packet for gun in US.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgjdlx92lylo
The problem is neither the camera, nor the usage of "AI". The problem is simpler: too many weapons on civilians hands and police impunity.

Armed police handcuff teen after AI mistakes crisp packet for gun in US
Taki Allen, 16, said he was eating a bag of Doritos after football practice before being handcuffed by police.

ICE is struggling to hire officers — even after lowering its standards
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/ice-hiring-standards-dhs-immigration-police-rcna239656

The Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists condemns St. Paul police attacks on journalists; three photojournalists were hurt by less-lethal munitions (Minnesota SPJ)
https://www.mnspj.org/2025/11/26/mnspj-condemns-st-paul-police-attacks-on-journa…

Damn. This is beautiful.
The story and the writing.
https://beige.party/@raineyday/115793532205514401

rainey 🌻 (@raineyday@beige.party)
Attached: 1 image It was a Tuesday in 1981 when the San Francisco police kicked in the door. Inside the small apartment, they expected to find a hardened criminal. They expected a drug kingpin. They expected resistance. Instead, they found a 57-year-old waitress in an apron. The air in the apartment smelled sweet, thick with chocolate and something earthier. On the kitchen counter, cooling on wire racks, were 54 dozen brownies. The police officers began bagging the evidence. They confiscat…

So the DC National Guard are an f-ing laughing stock of derelict traitorous fops. They couldn’t secure a lemonade stand and yet took and take the illegal order to deploy _against_ the American People.
11 f-ing shootings on the National Guard’s watch because the f-ing National Guard are not police and never should take a deployment to pretend to be.
You dishonorable scum. You will never live down the shame. Wastes of space.

11 people were shot at seven overnight incidents, police say
D.C. police are investigating the shootings of 11 people overnight at seven different locations. These shootings took place within nine hours.

Remember Trump telling how extremely safe Washington DC was now..... Ofcourse he was lying.
https://kutv.com/news/nation-world/…

11 people were shot at seven overnight incidents, police say
D.C. police are investigating the shootings of 11 people overnight at seven different locations. These shootings took place within nine hours.

Les Daltons
https://www.liberation.fr/societe/police-justice/deux-detenus-sevadent-de-la-prison-de-dijon-en-sciant-les-barreaux-de-leur-cellule-20251127_3YQ3XFRWK5ETJL2PHB…

Deux détenus s’évadent de la prison de Dijon en sciant les barreaux de leur cellule et «à l’aide de draps»
L’évasion des deux hommes a été constatée à 7 heures ce jeudi 27 novembre. Le syndicat pénitentiaire FO Justice a dit avoir «alerté depuis des mois sur la dégradation alarmante des conditions de sécurité au sein de la maison d’arrêt».

Trans teen pleads guilty to planning massacre at Indiana school--police say she built shrine to Parkland shooter (Roberto Wakerell-Cruz/The Post Millennial)
https://thepostmillennial.com/trans-teen-pleads-guilty-to-planning-massacre-at-indiana-school-police-say-she-built-shrine-to-parkland-shooter
http://www.memeorandum.com/251027/p141#a251027p141

A Chinese woman pleads guilty in a London court to laundering bitcoin linked to a £5B Chinese investment scheme in which UK police seized 61,000 bitcoin in 2018 (Suzi Ring/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/56f45b0d-8471-4217-b5b3-478ad49ea591

Reading the news and watching a real-world instance of “sends in a detachment of inexperienced riot police to the front lines of the protest” (Andor S02E08) play out in real time is *wild*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Are_You?_(Andor)

TIL: The French police, the Gendarmerie nationale, have their own Linux distribution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu

GendBuntu - Wikipedia

If you tone police and drive away people trying to create a better environment more than you criticize and drive away people causing material harm, you might as well be advocating for material harm
I'm so tired of seeing this pattern over and over again. I see this on the Fediverse, in friend groups, in communities, in small organizations, and in large workplaces.
A system is what it does. If your system tolerates bad people, it doesn't matter that you intended harsher pu…

Samson, my dog, pooped on a police officer’s lawn. Charges may be pending for "assault with a deadly weapon.” 💩🔫
#DogsofMastodon

It is notable that the state and local police are all friendly witnesses for the plaintiffs in these cases
https://bsky.app/profile/kyledcheney.bsky.social/post/3m4dzxfbwak2q

Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social)
HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/afp_ai_commissioner_barrett_speech/
“Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) is working on an AI to interpret emojis and the slang used online by Generation Z and Generation Alpha, so it can understand them when they disc…

Australian police building AI to translate emoji used by ‘crimefluencers’
: Five Eyes intel alliance has created a team to target these scum who prey on kids

Good riddance. "Six days a week, 24 hours a day, two police officers within it would be paid overtime, which comes out to time-and-a-half." Think what we could've done to actually help people with this money. https://missionlocal.org/2025/09/sfpd-

SFPD nixes 24/7 bus at 16th and Mission, offers varying rationales
The command unit was placed at the BART plaza to demonstrate the city’s commitment to addressing drug use and vending

Why Laveranues Coles decided to give up his retired cushy life to become an officer https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47413232/new-york-jets-ex-wr-laveranues-coles-jacksonville-police-officer

While I love Man on the Inside I am sad a show about Private Investigators doesn't spend any time shitting on corrupt police work.
#tv

#Prague metro is full of police. They "random" check people. Be advised

Sure… but...
I heard the police chief on the radio say "This sort of violence doesn't happen here."
Yes. It does. It did. Get your head out of wherever it is hidden and accept reality. https://mastodon.social/@0xYumeko/115289032518876808

Moscow explosion kills 2 Russian police officers tied to Ukrainian POW abuse, intelligence source says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/24/moscow-explosion-kills-russian-police.html

Larry Ellison (Oracle-Chef und Trump-Freund) träumt von der totalen Überwachung: Bürger „werden sich benehmen“, weil jeder Schritt gefilmt, analysiert, gemeldet wird. Klingt mehr nach Orwells #1984 als nach Fortschritt. Mehr Kameras bedeuten nicht mehr Gerechtigkeit, sondern mehr Machtkonzentration. Autor Christiaan Hetzner zieht Parallelen zu Chinas Sozialkreditsystem. | Fortune

Courtesy of @…, this week’s #ThursdayFiveList theme is #RainyDayMusic:
1. Corey Glover, “April Rain”—

https://futurism.com/science-energy/truck-crashes-monkeys-diseases

University Denies Monkeys That Escaped in Truck Crash Were Infected With Horrific Diseases
A truck that was transporting research monkeys crashed. Police say they carried dangerous diseases, claims that have since been refuted.

I can't help but wonder what #47s administration will say about the persecution of #Palestinian #Christians ...
Israeli police arrest Palestinian man dressed as Santa Claus at Christmas party

I can't help but wonder what #47s administration will say about the persecution of #Palestinian #Christians ...
Israeli police arrest Palestinian man dressed as Santa Claus at Christmas party

It's missing the point, but if my name was Taki, the brand of tortilla chips I ate wouldn't be Doritos.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgjdlx92lylo

Armed police surround teen after AI mistakes crisp packet for gun
Taki Allen, 16, said he was eating a bag of Doritos after football practice before being handcuffed by police.

@… was kind enough to post an image of a friend's returned phone from the police here: https://donotsta.re/objects/482cd0c0-449b-4dbb-8cd4-d63fb86b6334…

elly (soon@39c3) (@elly@donotsta.re)
About 1.5 years ago my friend was (falsely) accused of terrorism.All of their electronic devices were seized, plus my stash of hard drives (stored at their place for reasons).Of course police didn’...

Samsung and Google partner to bring Google Photos to TizenOS-powered TVs, launching in March 2026 and showing curated memories, ahead of CES 2026 (Rajesh Pandey/Android Police)
https://www.androidpolice.com/samsung-brings-google-photos-biggest-screen-home/

#PSA #MissingChild #Canberra

Police continue search for Janessa Williams
Police are renewing their appeal for assistance to locate missing 13-year-old girl Janessa Williams.

crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…

Questions remain about MPD’s work with ICE. Activists want lawmakers to step in
#news

Questions remain about MPD’s work with ICE. Activists want lawmakers to step in
They say the D.C. Council should publicly question MPD about cooperation on immigration enforcement.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #MaryAnneHobbs
Radiohead:
🎵 Karma Police
#Radiohead
https://jiyongsangel.bandcamp.com/track/karma-police
https://open.spotify.com/track/63OQupATfueTdZMWTxW03A

Oh, Jenny Durkan, the attorney in question, became the Mayor of Seattle. She was later found to have destroyed public records related to the police response to the George Floyd uprising. Gee... I wonder if anyone could possibly have predicted this?
#Seattle folks

So the asylum seeker, who probably didn't have a fair trial, given the media circus, knew he'd been mistakenly released and tried get get back into the prison. Later police directedhim to the train station.

Après une plainte pour homophobie, la « cellule de déontologie » de la police devra enquêter sur sa propre hiérarchie
https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/202

Après une plainte pour homophobie, la « cellule de déontologie » de la police devra enquêter sur sa propre hiérarchie
Dénonçant des propos discriminants, un technicien de la police scientifique de Seine-et-Marne déplore les limites de l’instance à qui est confié son dossier, et qui est composée de collègues répondant à la même hiérarchie que lui ou ceux qu’il met en cause.

Chinese scammer pleads guilty after UK seizes nearly $7 billion in bitcoin https://therecord.media/chinese-scammer-guilty-seizure-uk

When I started programming I had one big disadvantage: no Internet. No looking up stuff online, no asking questions, no easy download of tools, only printed books and magazines (and even those hard to get)…
When I started programming I had one big advantage: no Internet. Whatever I created could not expose any security hole, any personal data, everything just run locally, and the biggest fear was that the police would come for my pirated copy of Sokoban – or even worse that the disk it…

😂 ICE arrests police officer in Chicago suburb and accuses him of being in US illegally! 😂
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/16/politics/ice-arrests-chicago-suburb-police-officer-hanover-park

“[S]top investigating low-level crimes where [Met] judged there was little prospect of catching the culprits”
meet: “Problems grow the size they need for them to be acknowledged.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/1…

London Became a Global Hub for Phone Theft. Now We Know Why.
About 80,000 phones were stolen in the British capital last year. The police are finally discovering where many of them went.

Cowboys’ Marshawn Kneeland was driving more than 145 mph in police chase, records show https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6838290/2025/11/25/marshawn-kneeland-death-crash-cowboys/

Investigation: the US government allowed and even helped US companies sell tech used for China's surveillance across five GOP and Democratic administrations (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/chinese-sur

US government helps Silicon Valley firms sell surveillance technology to China
Even while warning about national security and human rights abuse, the U.S. government across five Republican and Democratic administrations has repeatedly allowed and even actively helped American firms to sell technology to Chinese police, government and surveillance companies, an Associated Press investigation has found. And time after time, despite bipartisan attempts, Congress has turned a blind eye to loopholes that allow China to work around its own rules, such as cloud services, third-p…

A retired online #memester and former police officer has been put in jail with a $2m bail since days after #CharlieKIrk was shot in Utah for posting ideologically #leftist meme content on

The Absurd Prosecution of a Man Who Posted a Charlie Kirk Meme
Larry Bushart Jr. posted trolling memes on a Facebook thread about a vigil for Kirk. He’s been in a Tennessee jail ever since.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
LCD Soundsystem:
🎵 Call the Police
#LCDSoundsystem
https://open.spotify.com/track/51vOZQuGnqPXfU5VbTZqZb

I can't see any way to read this other than that the Scottish Police Federation (and the Crown Office!) admitting that the killing of #ShekuBayoh was racially motivated.
#ScotPol

ICE purposefully rammed their vehicle into a protestor’s truck in California.
In Chicago, federal agents tear gassed local police during a protest.
This is what happens when a wannabe dictator is running the country.
This is why millions of Americans peacefully stood up to defend our rights in the No Kings protests.
Peaceful protest is not a crime. It’s the foundation of our democracy.
I’m Fred Wellman
—Army combat veteran, entrepreneur, dad, MeidasTouch …

No complaint filed in Thompson's Dublin incident https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46420614/no-complaint-filed-dublin-incident-involving-steelers-thompson

EU digitally resigned. We’re done here, we can just go join our American overlords apparently
https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-police-world-digital-tech-us-china-regulations/

Brussels is done being the world’s digital policeman
The “Brussels Effect” is dead. Now Washington is setting the pace on deregulation in Europe.

Former NFL player who died in police custody battled injuries and mental health challenges https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/former-nfl-player-who-died-in-police-custody-battled-injuries-and-mental-health-challe…

How does genocide happen in 2025? Because of toadies like Keir Starmer.
He should be sitting at The Hague alongside Netanyahu, Trump, Friedrich Merz, and everyone else who is complicit in the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people.
#israel #genocide

ICE arrests suburban Chicago cop, accusing him of being an unlawful immigrant from Montenegro
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/politics/ice-arrests-chicago-suburb-police-officer-hanover-park

How slowly ICE is turning into Trump's praetorian force
https://theconversation.com/how-ice-is-becoming-a-secret-police-force-under-the-trump-administration-255019

How ICE is becoming a secret police force under the Trump administration
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement meets most criteria that have defined secret police forces in authoritarian regimes. And the worst may be yet to come.

Good!
"NSW police officer who allegedly assaulted former Greens candidate Hannah Thomas charged with grievous bodily harm" | New South Wales | The Guardian
https://www.theguard…

Laws typically are not retroactive in nature, so good luck with that, boys...
Two Oklahoma Cops Who Shot Unarmed Black Man Holding a Hat ‘In Cold Blood’ Try to Appeal Based on New ‘Justifiable Homicide’ Law for Police
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/12/23/two-oklahoma-cops-who-shot-unarmed-black-man-try-to-appeal-based-on-new-law-for-police/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #MaryAnneHobbs
Radiohead:
🎵 Karma Police
#Radiohead
https://jiyongsangel.bandcamp.com/track/karma-police
https://open.spotify.com/track/63OQupATfueTdZMWTxW03A

“It is a shocking situation to be in that I don’t think anybody anticipated a year ago,”
Wrong. EVERYONE who was paying attention anticipated it... in 2017.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable…

Unfettered and Unaccountable: How Trump Is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challenges to their arrests and tactics.

Sequoia, a16z, and other VC firms invested $1.2B into police and public safety tech startups over the past year, following the success of Palantir and others (Abram Brown/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/a

Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Add to $1.2 Billion Funding Boom for Police Tech Startups
Over the past year, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital and many of Silicon Valley’s other top venture capital firms have funneled at least $1.2 billion in funding to startups selling technology to city police departments and local public safety agencies. Those companies illustrate the technology industry’s growing enthusiasm for making software and hardware for the government and law

Jets' Kris Boyd returns to hospital with 'health issues' following discharge after shooting https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6845631/2025/11/28/jets-kris-boyd-hospital-health-issues-shooting/

I understand the need to censor Nazi symbols in the media, but OTOH, this is now just a picture of some random dude’s ankle. 🤦🏻‍♂️
(From https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-27/police-investigate-tattooed-man-at-newcastle-beach/106180310

Police were no longer pursuing Marshawn Kneeland at time of crash, report says https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6825131/2025/11/20/marshawn-kneeland-police-crash-report/

Wait...
DC deployment of National Guard was ruled unlawful:
https://apnews.com/article/national-guard-dc-deployment-c1c2b13a7102632632267bf1262506ff
So what were they doing there before they were shot:

Federal judge orders end to National Guard deployment in DC
A federal judge is ordering the Trump administration to end its monthslong deployment of National Guard troops to help police the nation’s capital. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb concluded Thursday that President Donald Trump’s military takeover in Washington, D.C., illegally intrudes on local officials’ authority to direct law enforcement in the district. She put her order on hold for 21 days to allow for an appeal, however. District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb sued to chall…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
The Police:
🎵 So Lonely
#ThePolice
https://kalk2.bandcamp.com/track/6-the-police-so-lonely
https://open.spotify.com/track/2wnsBaxrmkthIFAm6vqCuX

I wonder how much of this is going on unreported - it's like taking candy from a baby.
The small town of Gloversville, NY, was hit by a ransomware attack and paid a ransom of $150,000, negotiated down from $300,000.
https://wnyt.com/top-stories/gloversville-hit-b…

Gloversville hit by ransomware attack
The city of Gloversville’s computer system was hit by a ransomware attack, which compromised the personal information of employees past and present. The attack was discovered by the finance commissioner back in March, the city announced on Saturday. There was a ransomware note on the server. Gloversville reported the attack to the FBI. State Police and the Department of Homeland Security’s Incident Response Team.

Pennsylvania's Supreme Court rules that police can get Google search data without a warrant; an expert warns it may encourage warrantless searches nationwide (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/google-searches-police-access…

Pa. high court rules that police can access Google searches without a warrant
In a decision that only affects Pennsylvanians but could have privacy implications elsewhere, the state's Supreme Court ruled that police did not need a warrant to access a rape suspect's Google searches.

Former NFL player Doug Martin died after struggling with officers while being detained, police say https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/former-nfl-player-doug-martin-died-after-struggling-with-officers-while…

In a state where organized labor is not known to be a major political force,
supporters of teachers, police, firefighters and other public sector workers rallied to force the repeal of a particularly ill-advised, if not downright mean, act of the Utah Legislature.
An ad hoc alliance of labor unions
-- not just those representing public sector workers
-- arose under the title of
"Protect Utah Workers".
It included unions whose members primarily work…

Records: WMU police called twice to aid Kneeland https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47050562/western-michigan-police-twice-called-check-marshawn-kneeland

Metropolitan Police Drop Non-Crime Hate Incident Investigations (David Strom/HotAir)
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/10/21/metropolitan-police-drop-non-crime-hate-incident-investigations-n3808027
http://www.memeorandum.com/251021/p90#a251021p90

A profile of "Rey", the admin of cybercriminal group Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters, a 15-year-old from Amman, Jordan who cooperated with European police since June (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/meet-rey-the-admin…

Law enforcement agencies from Austria, Estonia, Finland, and Latvia, together with Europol,
have seized thousands of SIM-box devices and SIM cards used in multiple scam campaigns.
The police kicked off Operation Simcartel on October 10 in Latvia,
carrying out 26 searches, and arresting five people right away,
also seizing approximately 1,200 SIM-box devices, 40,000 SIM cards, and five servers with additional infrastructure.
A SIM-box device is a piece of hardwar…

Massive SIM farm network powering 49 million fake accounts taken apart by Europol
Seven people were arrested

Videos show police search for Marshawn Kneeland before death https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47062541/videos-detail-police-search-dallas-cowboys-marshawn-kneeland-death

Release of Kneeland police footage highlights NFL's issues with grief, tragedy https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/11/24/what-the-marshawn-kneeland-footage-release-means-fo…

Police Identify Person of Interest in Brown, MIT Shootings | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/police-identify-person-of-interest-in-brown-mit-shootings

Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades burned through the night,
leaving at least 44 people dead and 279 reported missing
with rescuers still pulling residents from blazing high-rise apartment buildings into the morning.
Police had arrested three men on suspicion of manslaughter in connection with fire
which began Wednesday afternoon in a housing complex in Tai Po district, a suburb in the New Territories.
By Thursday morning local time, the fire was yet to be pu…

3 arrested in Hong Kong, as a high-rise fire leaves at least 44 dead and 279 reported missing
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades burned through the night, leaving at least 44 people dead and 279 reported missing with rescuers still pulling residents from blazing high-rise a...

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/business/companies/20251209/police-raid-coupang-over-massive-data-breach
This is what happens when you do bad cybersecurity.
Police reportedly seek to check for possible lapses in Coupang'…

Police raid Coupang over massive data breach
Police raided the headquarters of e-commerce giant Coupang Inc. on Tuesday over a massive breach of personal information that affected some 34 mill...

Cowboys’ Marshawn Kneeland was driving more than 145 mph in police chase, records show https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6838290/2025/11/25/marshawn-kneeland-death-crash-cowboys/

Sam Altman says OpenAI is "not the elected moral police of the world" after receiving backlash for saying ChatGPT will allow "erotica for verified adults" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/15/altman-open-ai-moral-police-ero…

Sam Altman says OpenAI isn't 'moral police of the world' after erotica ChatGPT post blows up
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said his company is "not the elected moral police of the world" after receiving backlash over his decision to allow erotica on ChatGPT.

Efforts to repress climate and environmental protest are growing worldwide
through a combination of new legislation,
novel uses of existing legal processes,
police actions,
vilification of activists,
and both violence and killings.
Acts of repression are likely to expand and intensify
as authoritarian regimes roll back climate policies,
with a particular focus on Trump’s actions in office
criminalizing protest,
increasing police po…

Here's the global playbook being used to crack down on climate protest
A new study finds that repression of environmental protest is rising worldwide and Indigenous land defenders face the greatest risk.

I'm suing DC Metro Police for body cam footage of US Institute of Peace raid (Marisa Kabas/The Handbasket)
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/dc-metro-police-us-institute-of-peace-body-cam-lawsuit
http://www.memeorandum.com/251021/p147#a251021p147

Police were no longer pursuing Marshawn Kneeland at time of crash, report says https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6825131/2025/11/20/marshawn-kneeland-police-crash-report/

Sources: Italian police raided two Amazon sites on Monday as part of a growing investigation into alleged customs and tax fraud involving Chinese imports (Emilio Parodi/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/tax-cus

In the wake of the D.C. shooting,
the Trump administration will conduct a full review of Afghan nationals who were admitted to the U.S. under the Biden administration,
Donald Trump said.
“We must now reexamine every single alien who has entered our country from Afghanistan under Biden,
and we must take all necessary measures to ensure the removal of any alien from any country who does not belong here, or add benefit to our country.”

Live updates: 2 National Guard members in critical condition; D.C. shooting suspect said to be Afghan national
The suspect, who was also shot, was taken into custody, according to D.C. police. The suspected shooter is said to be an Afghan national.

In the USA, so many Black parents have seen their children killed by police that, now,
growing numbers of those same parents are building a grassroots movement for accountability and justice.
https://therealnews.com/their-kids-were-all-killed-…

Their kids were all killed by police. Now, they’re leading a movement
“We felt that there was a need for this organization because we didn't see anywhere to go where someone could understand and could feel our pain with the loss of our children”

Police say $200K stolen from QB Sanders' home https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47011424/police-say-200k-stolen-shedeur-sanders-home-game

An AI-powered gun detection system hooked up to a Baltimore County high school’s cameras mistook a bag of Doritos chips as a weapon
— and called the cops on a 16-year-old student.
As local news station WBAL-TV 11 News reports, Taki Allen was enjoying the snack while sitting outside of Kenwood High School after football practice.
Twenty minutes later, he was visited by a small army of heavily-armed police officers.
“They made me get on my knees, put my hands behind my ba…

On October 18, 2019,
protests erupted in Santiago, Chile,
over a hike in the cost of public transportation.
But the demonstrations quickly grew into more than that.
Those in the streets demanded change—real change.
They demanded more rights.
They demanded a new Constitution.
Police cracked down with impunity.
Videos went viral of riot police beating people in the streets.
Chemical water guns.
Shooting rubber bullets at point blank …

The Chilean band overcoming police violence with music
Hasta La Victoria’s music is rock and punk, hip hop, and circus. They have found an outlet to focus their pain and their suffering. To define it, and direct it back. This is episode 72 of Stories of Resistance.

ICE has used the pretext of combating antisemitism to target dissidents.
A branch of the agency previously used to target drug smugglers and human traffickers has reportedly been directed to scan social media for posts sympathetic to Hamas.
Though ICE is ostensibly still bound by constitutional limits,
the way it has been operating bears the hallmarks of a secret police force in the making.
They typically meet five criteria:
they’re a police force targeting pol…

How ICE is becoming a secret police force under the Trump administration
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement meets most criteria that have defined secret police forces in authoritarian regimes. And the worst may be yet to come.

NYPD seeking suspect in shooting of Jets' Boyd https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46998554/new-york-police-seek-suspect-shooting-jets-kris-boyd

Amazon's Ring partners with Flock to let law enforcement agencies that work with Flock request footage from Ring doorbell users (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/amazons-ring-to-partn…

Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch
Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

For more than a decade, Russia’s so-called #probiv market
– a term derived from the verb
“to pierce” or
“to punch into a search bar”
– has operated as a parallel information economy built on a network of corrupt officials,
traffic police,
bank employees and l
ow-level security staff willing to sell access to restricted government or corporate databases.
While l…

Brazil’s federal police on Saturday arrested former president Jair Bolsonaro over suspicion he was plotting to escape and avoid starting a 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt.
The decision laid bare some of the country’s divisions, with many uncorking Champagne outside the far-right leader’s prison to celebrate as his supporters prepared a religious act in his favor.
In a dramatic and unexpected twist in the final stage of a long and divisive criminal trial, feder…

Brazil’s Supreme Court orders arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro
Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered the arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro over claims he was planning to escape before starting his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt. Bolsonaro, who has been under house arrest, was taken to the federal police headquarters in Brasilia on Saturday after his ankle monitor was reportedly violated. Justice Alexandre de Moraes cited a video by Bolsonaro's son urging supporters to protest, which he said showed intent to create chaos. Bolsonar…