South Korean police raided Google’s Seoul office on Tuesday, the latest in a series of legal challenges the company is facing because of data collected by its controversial fleet of “Street View” cars. Google has been preparing since late last year to launch its “Street View” service in South Korea, and the data collection...
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Note to crooks: the grab-and-snatch iPhone tactic just got a little more risky now that GPS apps can tell police exactly where you are after you take it. Horatio Toure, a 31-year-old crook in San Francisco, learned this the hard way. He pedaled up on a bike, snatched a woman’s iPhone, then rode away....
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Apple pressed local police to investigate the loss of a next-generation iPhone a day after Gizmodo published photographs, telling investigators that the prototype was so valuable, a price could not be placed on it, according to court documents made public Friday. In response to arguments made by CNET and other media organizations, a San...
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Police raided the house of an editor for Gizmodo on Friday and seized computers and other equipment. The raid was part of an investigation into the leak of a prototype iPhone that the site obtained for a blockbuster story last week. Now, a legal expert has raised questions about the legality of the warrant...
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