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An iPhone 5C, the model used by one of the perpetrators of the 2015 San Bernardino attack. The Apple–FBI encryption dispute concerns whether and to what extent courts in the United States can compel manufacturers to assist in unlocking cell phones whose data are cryptographically protected. [1]
The case In re Apple iPod iTunes Antitrust Litigation was filed as a class action in 2005 [9] claiming Apple violated the U.S. antitrust statutes in operating a music-downloading monopoly that it created by changing its software design to the proprietary FairPlay encoding in 2004, resulting in other vendors' music files being incompatible with and thus inoperable on the iPod. [10]
A protection racket is a type of racket and a scheme of organized crime perpetrated by a potentially hazardous organized crime group that generally guarantees protection outside the sanction of the law to another entity or individual from violence, robbery, ransacking, arson, vandalism, and other such threats, in exchange for payments at regular intervals.
Extortion is a common law crime in Scotland of using threat of harm to demand money, property or some advantage from another person. It does not matter whether the demand itself is legitimate (such as for money owed) as the crime can still be committed when illegitimate threats of harm are used. [7] [8]
Embezzlement (from Anglo-Norman, from Old French besillier ("to torment, etc."), of unknown origin) [1] is a term commonly used for a type of financial crime, usually involving theft of money from a business or employer. It often involves a trusted individual taking advantage of their position to steal funds or assets, most commonly over a ...
The allegations involved the Spark Driver Program operated by Bentonville, Arkansas-based Walmart in which gig economy workers signed up to make "last-mile" deliveries from Walmart stores nationwide.
The stolen credit cards or credit card numbers are then used to buy prepaid gift cards to cover up the tracks. [2] Activities also encompass exploitation of personal data, [3] and money laundering techniques. [4] Modern carding sites have been described as full-service commercial entities. [5]
A pregnant woman is recovering in the hospital after she was stabbed multiple times by a pizza delivery driver over the size of her tip, according to reports. The incident happened on Sunday, Dec ...