Law

The plan to use ‘bespoke’ tags to monitor criminals via GPS satellites has been abandoned by the Tories after the project ran into technical difficulties, costing the taxpayer up to £23 million. Ministers will now look to use available off-the-shelf technologies to achieve their goals. The Telegraph reports: Ministers wanted to develop their own “bespoke” tags to monitor offenders on release or bail via GPS. But a string of delays and problems has forced the Ministry of Justice to abandon the scheme.

ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi  reportedly ordered the arrest of some his top lieutenants near Mosul, on charges of treason. Iraqi News reports: Nineveh – Media officials with the Ministry of Defense announced on Wednesday, that the so-called ‘masked terrorist’ arrested dozens of prominent ISIS leaders on charges of treason, while pointed out that the arrest operations were carried out by orders of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

America’s Barbaric Justice (sic) System

The NYPD have weighed in on the current privacy debate between the FBI and apple, requesting that every iPhone currently subject to a court-ordered search be unlocked. The police department have made it clear that once the San Bernardino perpetrator’s phone is broken into by the FBI, they want to make the hacking of mobile phones a routine occurrence within law enforcement. That would essentially mean that every iPhone entered into evidence in court could be forced open by authorities, via a piece of software that Apple would be forced to create.

A federal appeals court in Pennsylvania has ruled that filming cops is illegal, and can lead to arrest.  The cases of Fields v. City of Philadelphia, and Geraci v. City of Philadelphia involve two historic incidents where citizens were arrested for filming the police. Theantimedia.org reports: Richard Fields, a Temple University student, was arrested after stopping to take a picture of a large group of police outside a house party.