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Scott Shaw Gets Two Years in Prison for Acts Against San Jose State Female Athletes

San Jose Inside — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:48:17 +0000

San Jose State trainer Scott Shaw was sentenced Tuesday to serve 24 months in federal prison for unlawfully touching female student athletes under the guise of providing medical treatment.

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Judge Narrows U.S. Case That Says Google Illegally Protects Monopoly

Barry Holtzclaw — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 19:04:25 +0000

The ruling did not affect other claims in the antitrust case about Google's search engine, which is scheduled to go to trial next month.

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Uber’s Former Security Chief Convicted of Attempting to Cover Up Massive Hack of Customer Data

Barry Holtzclaw — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 20:54:16 +0000

Data breaches involved millions of Uber user records and tens of thousands of driver licenses, federal prosecutors said.

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VTA Riders and Workers No Longer Required to Wear Masks

San Jose Inside — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 14:50:05 +0000

Airlines, airports and other transportation agencies, including BART and Caltrain. had followed suit in making masks optional.

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FBI, IRS, DEA and SF Prosecutors Shut Down Multi-billion-dollar ‘Hydra’ Cryptocurrency in Darknet

Barry Holtzclaw — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 03:48:44 +0000

In a stunning announcement this week, Attorney General Merrick Garland revealed that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Francisco is leading the prosecution of a Russia-based mastermind accused of running Hydra, the world’s largest and longest-running illegal 'darknet' crptocurrency market, which federal agencies say they have put out of business.

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Mary Papazian Resigns as President of San Jose State in Wake of Justice Department Settlement

Barry Holtzclaw — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 19:52:15 +0000

The next SJSU president will have to deal with lingering legal claims, and manage the wide-ranging reforms in its athletic programs required by the Justice Department settlement, not to mention dealing with issues of trust, reputation and accountability in the broader community.

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Outgunned: Why California’s Groundbreaking Firearms Law is Failing

Barry Holtzclaw — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 17:41:38 +0000

A 20-year-old California would remove guns from people deemed too dangerous to be armed. The measure, plagued by problems, has not achieved its promise.

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Two San Jose Men, 4 Others Accused of Illegal Insider Trading with Infinera and Fortinet

Barry Holtzclaw — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 17:33:06 +0000

The joint enforcement actions by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department involved a high school biology teacher, a gambling debt, a group of friends, WhatsApp messages and two Silicon Valley tech companies.

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Silicon Valley’s Tech Giants Reluctantly Plunged Into Spying Controversy

New York Times — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 05:47:44 +0000

The number of Justice Department and other police requests has soared in recent years to thousands a week, putting Apple and other tech giants like Google and Microsoft in an uncomfortable position between law enforcement, the courts and the customers whose privacy they have promised to protect.

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