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• El abogado del DoJ argumentó que las acciones realizadas en público mientras se posee un smartphone no otorgan una expectativa de privacidad • La Corte Suprema de EE. UU. está considerando si las órdenes judiciales generalizadas para obtener datos de ubicación de smartphones infringen los derechos de privacidad de los estadounidenses y violan la constitución. • Los magistrados escucharon los argumentos iniciales el lunes en el caso Chatrie v United States, el cual se refiere a la dependencia de las fuerzas del orden en las llamadas "geofence warrants" (órdenes de geovalla) en casos difíciles.

Secondhand car buyers urged to carefully inspect vehicles, while owners told to beware tests that are suspiciously quickRise of the ‘ghost owner’: 18,000 UK vehicles in use without proper recordsYou have just bought a secondhand car. It was older than you wanted, but were reassured because it had recently passed its MOT.Within a few days, you notice a problem with the steering and take it into a garage to be checked. As well as that issue, they find the tread depth of the tyres is so low it should not have passed the test. Continue reading...

• The United Nations has issued an urgent warning that Haiti faces a full-scale humanitarian catastrophe as gang violence has displaced over 300,000 people in the past two months alone. • The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports critical shortages of food, water, and medical supplies; gang-controlled areas now cover approximately 60% of Port-au-Prince. • The US has deployed additional Coast Guard vessels to monitor the situation and assist with refugee operations, while discussions continue about potential military intervention or expanded peacekeeping measures.

Where Olly Robbins relied on recollections, Cabinet Office’s top civil servant was at pains to link her account to paper trail Seen through the Westminster bubble, the Peter Mandelson vetting affair looks like an age-old conflict pitting ministers against mandarins. Yet the latest top civil servant to testify to parliament over what some are now calling “Mandygate” gave an intriguing account that suggested it has never been as simple as that.Cat Little, the top civil servant at the Cabinet Office, did not put it in these terms, but what she revealed was an extraordinary dispute between the country’s most senior civil servants. Continue reading...

Top civil servant reveals more details of vetting process and lack of paper trail for approval of Mandelson’s appointment UK politics live – latest updatesIn more than 90 minutes of evidence to the foreign affairs select committee about the Peter Mandelson scandal, Cat Little, the head civil servant in the Cabinet Office, was low key and often cautious.But she did reveal several pieces of new information – or at times information different to that given to the same committee by Olly Robbins, the former permanent secretary at the Foreign Office. Continue reading...