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A team of journalists have discovered a large-scale network of sophisticated surveillance equipment that spies on people’s phones across London, amid a growing black market for the same technology worldwide.  Vice News found multiple instances of catchers – also known as stingrays or cell-site simulators – across London including the UK parliament, a peaceful anti-austerity protest, and at the Ecuadorian embassy (where Julian Assange is being held). Vice News reports: A former senior surveillance insider also confirmed to VICE News that they have been used by UK police.

Hatton Garden jewel thieves faced justice today after committing the biggest burglary in British history, an audacious heist at the heart of London’s Gem district. Three men were found guilty for their part in the record breaking £14 million heist. Seven men now await sentencing for their part in the ‘biggest tom in the history of the f****** world’. The men were eventually caught after police bugged their bragging conversations.

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Following a year of historic routs in the hedge fund space, yesterday we pointed out that after the new year's break, it was time for the pain among the active investors to return:

Time for the first hedge fund liquidation of 2016

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) January 4, 2016

Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,