I wrote earlier this week about James Ladd, the murderer who recently escaped from a North Carolina prison. Well, he’s been caught, apparently without much fuss: a motorist saw a man running from some woods towards a house and called the authorities, who went to the house and found Ladd crouched in the garage. In other news: Apple recently introduced its iPhone 5, and it seems that it has sparked a deluge of Apple-related crime . . . or maybe just new stories about the same. The News and Observer had this article about the Raleigh IT specialist whose Macbook Air was stolen while he was on his honeymoon – he had tracking software installed and was able to advice the police of its location and supply them with photos, taken by the computer’s webcam, of the thief using it. Meanwhile, ABC has this story about journalists who used Apple’s “Find My Phone” service to track a stolen iPad to the home of a TSA officer, who was captured on film handling the device at the airport. (Make that former TSA officer.) So, are Apple products magnets for theft? Perhaps so, according to this report, which concludes that thefts of Apple devices constitutes 14% of all reported crime in New York City. Maybe I should switch to Android! Staying with the digital theme, check out this WSJ Law Blog entry about the rise of certain types of electronic surveillance orders. I may have more to say about the details in a [...]
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