Archive for the ‘Digital recording’ Category

itunes.apple.com COMSEC AUDIO JAMMERKeep your private conversations private!The COMSEC AUDIO JAMMER protects your sensitive room conversations by generating a random masking sound, which desensitizes any near-by microphone. Effective against any microphone based eavesdropping device including tape recorders, RF transmitters, hard-wired microphones (including contact type) and shotgun microphones. It also protects against microwave or laser reflection [...]

chron.com DALLAS (AP) — A small-town Texas constable told the FBI he secretly bugged other officials’ offices after they were accused of illegally forcing motorists to forfeit their cash, according to a search warrant affidavit. The affidavit, based on interviews conducted by FBI agents and Texas Rangers, quotes Shelby CountyConstable Fred Walker as saying he authorized the installation [...]

pixiq.com Illinois police officers have to be the most smug cops in the nation knowing they have the power to arrest citizens on felony charges for recording them in public while they themselves have every right to record citizens. That smugness is very evident in the latest case to emerge from the Land of Lincoln. [...]

kens5.com A Wagner High School Junior ROTC instructor has been accused of taking inappropriate photos of students. The Junior ROTC instructor was placed on administrative leave after a recording device was found in a supply room where students sometimes change their clothing. They say one of the female students was actually recorded doing just that. [...]

> wqow.com Eau Claire (WQOW) – Investigators believe a woman bugged a child’s car seat to keep tabs on her ex-boyfriend. Jamie Mesang is accused of duct taping a digital recorder underneath a car seat that belongs to her ex. Police say he became suspicious when Mesang started texting him about things she shouldn’t have [...]

staugustine.com Former Assistant County Attorney Paras Desai was arrested by St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office detectives Monday afternoon and charged with eavesdropping and eight counts of illegal interception of communication, all third-degree felonies. Desai, 35, of St. Augustine, posted $8,000 bond about 4 p.m. today and was released. A warrant was issued for his arrest [...]

economictimes.indiatimes.com WASHINGTON: An Obama administration taskforce is seeking to overhaul a federal law requiring telephone and broadband carriers to ensure their networks can be wiretapped, The New York Times reported Tuesday. Law enforcement and counterterrorism officials from the Justice and Commerce Departments, the FBI and other federal agencies told the Times tougher legislation was necessary [...]

tgdaily.com Despite outrage over George Bush’s limited ability to wiretap into American phone calls, Obama wants to take it a step further and be able to monitor every single form of communication any American citizen uses. The same kind of authority the government has to wiretap into phone calls could be coming to Facebook, instant [...]

news.ecoustics.com Looxcie, Inc. announced today the launch of Looxcie™ (look-see), the first small, light, easy-to-wear camcorder that records everything the user sees. A Bluetooth-enabled headset, Looxcie fits comfortably on the ear and points where the user looks. Because it is always on, always recording video, users never have to worry about pressing a record button [...]

independent.co.uk France’s convoluted L’Oréal family fraud scandal became even more convoluted and even more gripping yesterday. Tapes of bugged conversations involving the L’Oréal owner, Liliane Bettencourt, 87, implied that President Nicolas Sarkozy had meddled in legal proceedings in which a society photographer is accused of defrauding France’s richest woman of almost a billion euros. The [...]