ronn

"TikTok says it has never been asked to provide U.S. user data to the Chinese government and wouldn’t if asked."

BS -- on both points. They would turn over date in a heartbeat if the CCP demanded it. And they've misused and shared U.S. user data in the past despite their numerous statements to the contrary. The CCP doesn't allow TikTok in China for a reason.

Given the scope of the fraudulent scheme and the ringleader's attempts to evade apprehension, he should have gotten closer to the ten year max. He's doing at least four years. And if he's not a legal resident, I'm sure he'll be booted from the country once he serves the sentence.

"The ACLU and the jury concluded that the two police officers who ordered the raid had no reason to single out Mrs. Johnson's house as the target. The officers are liable for approximately $1.25 million each in punitive and compensatory damages."

Hmmmm... 

Edited to add

There is no Qualified Immunity in Denver (law change after the murder of George Floyd/Black Lives Matter Summer of 2020), so the two officers will be partially liable. Sadly, they will have to pay only $25K each (the law stipulates officers are responsible for 5% of awards or $25K, whichever is lowest). Too bad the assistant DA and brain dead judge can't be held responsible for the granting of a warrant with so little evidence.

jellybelly said:

ronn said:

Not very effective if it took Apple more than two years to "prevent this exact thing" from working out for the criminals' benefit into the millions. It's greed that got them caught, not robust systems in place to catch fraud of this nature. Criminals are always dum-dums driven by greed.

Apple may have noticed the first attempt.  Apple and law endorsement would also want to discover others involved both here and the supplier of the fakes—and any other recipients of the fake phones elsewhere in the world.  That could easily take two years considering it’s international.  

I’m not sure why you jumped to assume it took Apple two years to ‘prevent’ this. Apple and law enforcement couldn’t blow their cover.  They most likely intercepted sales of the phones and likely recovered most of the money. 

Did you not see the quoted text? I was responding to an earlier post about Apple's effort to "prevent this exact thing" (notice the quote marks again?) from happening. Despite there being at least three prior similar large-scale, multi-year fraud cases by other criminals similar to the one in this story. 

macxpress said:

How dumb can you be? Why would anything think Apple wouldn't catch this? They have specific systems in place to prevent this exact thing. They deserve everything that is coming to them. 

Not very effective if it took Apple more than two years to "prevent this exact thing" from working out for the criminals' benefit into the millions. It's greed that got them caught, not robust systems in place to catch fraud of this nature. Criminals are always dum-dums driven by greed.