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Undocumented New Yorkers are being targeted on Facebook and other online platforms by scammers masquerading as pro bono immigration services, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Friday in a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The DA urged the tech giant to install safeguards to clamp down on the quickly growing racket. Bragg said victims have typically been sending their payment money outside the U.S., making it difficult for authorities to recover stolen funds. He said scammers have been impersonating legal organizations and religious groups, like Catholic Charities of Baltimore, Catholic Charities of Greater Houston, and Catholic Charities of Trenton. “Imposter accounts are using your company’s platforms, including Facebook and WhatsApp, to falsely pose as pro bono legal services organizations,” Bragg wrote. “Those scammers then communicate with unsuspecting victims and claim to be lawyers offering immigration services. The money that the victims send for this bogus legal assistance is typically transferred overseas, making it difficult to prosecute or recover those funds.” The DA asked that Meta include a reporting option for law enforcement to report impostors,  » Read More

It has been nearly a week since she vanished at sea, and Lynette Hooker’s husband of 25 years has spent the past several days in custody in the Bahamas, where he’s been questioned in connection with her disappearance. From the beginning, Brian Hooker has remained faithful to his original account: that his wife fell from a small dinghy as the couple traveled back to their sailboat through rough conditions in the Bahamas, and that strong currents pulled her out of his reach. Authorities detained him Wednesday for questioning based on probable cause, Royal Bahamas Police Force Assistant Commissioner Advardo Dames told Reuters. He was taken into custody as a suspect, Dames said, though no charges have been announced. “I am heartbroken over the recent boat accident in unpredictable seas and high winds that caused my beloved Lynette to fall from our small dinghy,” he said in a statement before his arrest, describing what he characterized as a tragic accident. “Despite desperate attempts to reach her, the winds and currents drove us further apart. We continue to search for her and that is my sole focus.” By Friday,  » Read More

A Joplin council member's comment on social media has sparked anger and controversy, especially with the LGBTQ+ community — and it's not the first ...  » Read More

An undocumented Haitian man has been charged with murder after repeatedly striking a woman with a hammer outside a convenience store in Florida last week, the latest immigration case thrust into the national spotlight by President Donald Trump. Rolbert Joachin, 40, is in custody and accused by authorities of killing the woman, who has not been publicly identified, during an interaction at a gas station in Fort Myers on April 2, according to court documents. The victim was working as a store clerk at the gas station, according to the documents. A man who knew the victim told CNN affiliate WBBH she was a member of the Bangladeshi community in Fort Myers. In a post on Truth Social Thursday evening, Trump shared shocking surveillance footage of the killing, calling it the result of immigration policies under former President Joe Biden and reiterated inflammatory rhetoric associating immigrants with crime. Trump’s amplification of the video is the latest in a yearslong campaign to use certain killings as apparent evidence for stricter border enforcement. “The video of her brutal slaying is one of the most vicious things you will ever see,” Trump said in his post,  » Read More

The arrest of an American man who told authorities his wife fell overboard while on a dinghy in rough waters in the Bahamas has brought greater scrutiny to his account of what happened as the search for her enters a fifth day. Brian Hooker was arrested by the Royal Bahamas Police Force on Wednesday in connection with the disappearance of 55-year-old Lynette Hooker, his lawyer confirmed to CNN. He was arrested “for additional questioning based on some probable cause we have,” Royal Bahamas Police Force Assistant Commissioner Advardo Dames told Reuters. He was taken into custody as a suspect, Dames said, though no charges have been announced. Brian Hooker “categorically and unequivocally denies any wrongdoing” in his wife’s disappearance, his attorney, Terrel Butler, said in a statement. “He has been cooperating with the relevant authorities as part of an ongoing investigation.” The Michigan couple, both US nationals, have been sailing together for more than a decade, documenting their life at sea across social media. The US Coast Guard said it opened a criminal investigation into Lynette Hooker’s disappearance as her family has called for a deeper probe into what happened.  » Read More

Every tech company tells you your data is safe. They’ve (hopefully) got encryption, access controls, and zero-trust architectures—the whole glossy security brochure. And then someone on the inside writes a script to steal your private photos anyway. That’s what a former Meta employee based in London is under criminal investigation for. He allegedly downloaded around 30,000 private images belonging to Facebook users. The Metropolitan Police’s cybercrime unit is handling the case. According to court papers, the accused didn’t just browse around; he built a custom script designed to circumvent Meta’s internal detection systems. Meta says it discovered the breach over a year ago, fired the individual, notified affected users, and referred the matter to UK law enforcement. The suspect is currently on police bail and must report to officers in May. Meta’s track record on data protection is far from spotless. It agreed to pay $725 million in 2022 to settle a class-action lawsuit over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, where third-party developers harvested data from millions of Facebook users.  » Read More

The staff member is said to have developed a programme which allowed him to circumvent Meta’s internal security controls to access and download users images.  The Metropolitan Police Cybercrime unit has launched an investigation into the incident which is being termed a mass invasion of Facebook users’ privacy. Speaking about the case, Meta confirmed they were made aware of the situation over a year ago and the employee was dismissed. Upon learning about the alleged breach, Meta notified the police themselves and is cooperating with their investigations.  A Meta spokesperson commented: “Protecting user data is our top priority. “After discovering improper access by an employee over a year ago, we immediately terminated the individual, notified users, referred the matter to law enforcement and enhanced our security measures”. A spokesperson for the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said: “We are aware of this incident. “The ICO regularly engages with social media platforms, including Meta, regarding approaches to data protection to ensure that users rights and freedoms are being upheld.  » Read More

In a new Facebook statement, Schon seemingly replied to quotes from Pineda in a Rolling Stone article on the band's complicated history. Neal Schon from Journey. Stephen Lovekin/Variety/PMC Trending on Billboard Looks like Journey almost went their separate ways two years ago. In a new statement posted to Facebook on Monday, Journey co-founder and lead guitarist Neal Schon seemingly replied to frontman Arnel Pineda‘s claims that he was prohibited from quitting the band twice. “There’s been some recent press and speculation that doesn’t reflect the full picture,” Schon writes. Though he does not specify what recent press he’s referring to, his statement comes days after a March 31 Rolling Stone feature on his band that quotes Pineda sharing that he almost didn’t join Journey on their current farewell tour. Pineda claims that in 2024, he asked his bandmates to confer with him if they decide to do farewell shows and discuss the schedule with him.  » Read More

A former worker at Meta is being investigated by police over suspicions he downloaded about 30,000 private Facebook images. The engineer is alleged to have designed a programme to access the pictures while avoiding internal security checks, UK court documents show. A specialist detective from the Metropolitan Police's cybercrime unit is investigating. Meta confirmed the suspected breach was discovered more than a year ago and said it referred the matter to police itself. It said affected users had been notified and the worker was sacked. Its security systems have also been upgraded. The engineer, who lives in London, is on bail while the investigation continues. A request to vary his bail conditions was recently granted by Highbury Magistrates' Court. "Protecting user data is our top priority," said a Meta spokesperson. "After discovering improper access by an employee over a year ago, we immediately terminated the individual, notified users, referred the matter to law enforcement and enhanced our security measures. "We are co-operating with the ongoing investigation." Meta and YouTube found liable for social media addiction Read more from Sky News: Inside NASA mission on historic day Consultation on under-16s social media ban Meta - along with Google - last month

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