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Completing forms ID1 and ID2 English From: Applies to: You must provide evidence of identity for any party (and the person lodging the application if different) who is not legally represented. The evidence must be in form ID1 or form ID2 and must be completed by each individual person who is a party to the above transactions who is not legally represented. This requirement applies to both private individuals and corporate bodies such as companies. Both forms can be downloade...

New garda vice unit brings 71 extra charges against man accused of running brothels Mr Showky and his partner allegedly ran brothels across Dublin. By Tom Tuite Tuesday 2 Feb 2021, 5:20 PM Feb 2nd 2021, 5:20 PM 39,498 Views 0 Comments Image: Niall Carson/PA Image: Niall Carson/PA A NEW GARDA vice unit set up to target organised prostitution h...

Door supervisor who gave his SIA licence to a family member is given 32 weeks suspended sentence Muyiwa John Adegbola pleaded guilty to fraud for allowing his brother-in-law to use his Security Industry Authority (SIA) licence. From: On Monday 11 January 2021 Muyiwa John Adegbola, a door supervisor based in Manchester, pleaded guilty to fraud for allowing his brother-in-law to use his Security Industry Authority (SIA) licence. He was sentenced at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court to 32...

As part of their jobs, journalists routinely dig through government websites to find newsworthy documents and share them with the broader public. Journalists and Internet users understand that publicly available information on government websites is not secret and that, if government officials want to protect information from being disclosed online, they shouldn’t publicly post it on the Internet. But  a California city is ignoring these norms and trying to punish several journalists for doi...

> In 2019, cheat creator Global++ was sued by Pokémon Go developer Niantic for infringing its intellectual property rights and spoiling the gaming experience for legitimate players. The parties have now agreed to settle the case for a cool $5,000,000, with the former admitting several types of copyright infringement and computer abuse violations. Providing tools and services enabling players to cheat in video games is big business but after years of relative freedom, cheat facilitators are i...

Date Time Weston-Super-Mare woman convicted of making a fraudulent claim On 18 December 2020, Lisa Pearce of Weston-Super-Mare pleaded guilty to fraud at Bristol Crown Court; Pearce’s sentence was 180-hours of unpaid work which must be completed within two years. Pearce was prosecuted by the Security Industry Authority (SIA). Pearce was formerly an SIA licensed Door Supervisor and her licence expired on 7 August 2018. She applied for a new licence on 3 February 2019 and there was a delay in p...

> Police, anti-piracy groups, and sports companies are fighting a battle, not only to prevent pirate IPTV services from operating but also to stop fans from becoming illegal streaming customers. Interestingly, a potent part of their arsenal consists only of carefully constructed words that, when delivered into the hands of the lazy and unscrupulous, can be amplified to distort and mislead. As a publication entirely dedicated to reporting on copyright, piracy, torrent and streaming sites (plus...

Dec 28, 2020 A councillor is set to appear in court after allegedly committing fraud to claim £10,000 from a Covid-19 grant scheme. Subscribe to our daily newsletter! Sign Up Councillor Harman Banger Wolverhampton councillor Harman Banger will appear at Wolverhampton Magistrates Court over two offences between March 11 and June 5. The case was first heard by the Black Country Magistrates Court on December 22 where it was adjourned until January 11 next year. Banger, of Bilston Road, is accused...

Access Now 23 December 2020 | 12:00 pm Today, December 23, Access Now, along with Amnesty International, Committee to Protect Journalists, Internet Freedom Foundation, Paradigm Initiative, Privacy International, Reporters Without Borders, and Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales (R3D) are calling upon the U.S. Federal 9th Circuit Court to hold notorious cybersurveillance company, NSO Group, whose Pegasus spyware has been used to target civil society around the world, accountable....

On Monday, the tech firms, as well as the Washington-based Internet Association, filed a brief supporting Facebook’s lawsuit seeking damages and an injunction, stating that the spyware tools NSO Group sells are "powerful and dangerous." "Foreign governments may use the technology in problematic ways, but beyond that, idiosyncratic misuse is a much greater systemic risk," the companies say in their brief. "Widespread creation and deployment of these tools by private companies acting for profit...