James Ewinger reports: A little-known federal law that allows investigators to carry out a search warrant without the suspect’s knowledge contributed to the smashing of a major heroin ring in the area last week. […] The delayed-notice search warrant is designed to keep suspects from knowing they are under surveillance. In this case, investigators used…
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Fear and loathing and a dude named “Third Party”
I realized the other day that I have grown to really hate and distrust some dude named “Third Party.” Even though he occasionally sends me e-mail birthday cards, it is clear that he is not my friend. I got my first inkling that TP and I were not going to be best buds when I…
French court orders Google Inc to pay libel damages: report
A French court has ordered Google Inc to pay 5,000 euros ($6,672) in libel damages to a man who claimed that searches for his name automatically yielded a list of harmful suggestions. The man, whose name was not given, said the suggested terms that came up when typing his name on Google.fr — including the…
Woman sues debt collector for contacting her family via Facebook
Curtis Krueger reports: Melanie Beacham is on Facebook, the social networking site “that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.”Unfortunately for her, those “others” include bill collectors. Beacham, 34, of St. Petersburg, said she already had called her car finance company last summer to let people know she was…