May 19, 2024
Loans

Chinese police crack down on ‘Apple ID loan’ rackets, some of which were advertised under Tim Cook’s name

Police in China have arrested more than 40 people in relation to fraudulent schemes that target iPhone users in the country, whereby people give up their personal Apple IDs to obtain a loan, allowing the lenders to abuse their accounts. In a typical example of how the scheme works, borrowers are asked to sign out

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Banking

Colorado court upholds Google keyword search warrant which led to arrests in fatal arson

DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s highest court on Monday upheld the search of Google users’ keyword history to identify suspects in a 2020 fatal arson fire, an approach that critics have called a digital dragnet that threatens to undermine people’s privacy and their constitutional protections against unreasonable searches and seizures. However the Colorado Supreme Court cautioned

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