Ashley Belanger reports: A Spanish youth court has sentenced 15 minors to one year of probation after spreading AI-generated nude images of female classmates in two WhatsApp groups. The minors were charged with 20 counts of creating child sex abuse images and 20 counts of offenses against their victims’ moral integrity. In addition to probation, the teens…
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Pernicious cyberstalker sentenced to 9 years in prison for unrelenting harassment of former roommate and others
Defendant convicted at trial of sending thousands of horrific messages to victims, lawyers, police, and prosecutors Seattle – A 33-year-old Seattle man previously employed as a privacy consultant was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 9 years in prison for conspiracy to engage in cyberstalking, three counts of cyberstalking in violation of…
Breaking a cell phone to avoid its search and seizure justified obstruction enhancement under federal sentencing guidelines
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t? Seen at FourthAmendment.com: Defendant attempted to thwart a search of cell phones in his car tried to break one such that it had to be forensically reviewed to get information off of it. He wasn’t under arrest. Still, his actions qualified for a 2 level obstruction enhancement…
Detroit changes rules for police use of facial recognition after wrongful arrest of Black man
AP reports: The city of Detroit has agreed to pay $300,000 to a Black man who was wrongly arrested for shoplifting, and to change how police use facial-recognition technology to solve crimes after the software identified him as a suspect. The conditions are part of a lawsuit settlement with Robert Williams. His driver’s license photo was…