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Following the arrest of CEO Pavel Durov in August 2024, Telegram now voluntarily provides user data to U.S. authorities. Court records show the company shared details for 2,253 users, including phone numbers and IP addresses, responding to a Stored Communications Act order. This marks a sharp shift from their previous refusal to assist law enforcement.
The FBI arrested Edward Dubrovsky, 54, on Oct. 9 for conspiracy to extort and interference with commerce by threats. Dubrovsky, formerly of Cypfer, allegedly worked for the ShinyHunters group which stole over $70 million. The arrest occurred at the Philadelphia Cyber Risk Summit on Oct. 8, exposing a critical failure in vendor oversight for crisis response firms.
Livonia police arrested Christopher Thomas Mertens, a high school maintenance worker, after he attempted to meet a 15-year-old boy using AI generated images on the dating app Taimi. Investigators tracked Mertens using Thomson Reuters CLEAR and Clearview AI, leading to his custody on his day off.
Delhi Police launched a Rs 15.7-crore tender on July 30 to acquire 338 CCTV cameras with facial recognition technology. The Internet Freedom Foundation flagged 28 procedural defects, including missing privacy safeguards and inaccurate coordinates placing one camera 40 kilometres east of Delhi.
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