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The Department of Justice will be stepping up its in-person election monitoring efforts on Tuesday, compared with 2020's presidential election. The agency plans to deploy federal monitors from the its Civil Rights Division, Office of Personnel Management, and U.S. Attorneys’ Offices to polling places in 64 jurisdictions across 24 different states, according to a Monday press statement.“Since the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Civil Rights Division has regularly monitored elections in the field in…

WASHINGTON—Federal prosecutors and securities regulators are investigating whether Tesla Inc. TSLA 0.50% misled consumers and investors about how its advanced driver-assistance system performed, according to a person familiar with the matter. The Justice Department is looking at statements that Tesla and its executives made about the safety and functionality of the system known as Autopilot, the person said. The Securities and Exchange…

The Department of Justice is reportedly investigating whether Tesla has misled customers and investors by claiming that its Autopilot technology enables full-fledged self-driving capabilities. According to Reuters, the DOJ launched the probe last year following over a dozen crashes, including fatal ones, in which Autopilot was activated. Prosecutors in Washington and San Francisco are examining if Tesla had made unsupported full self-driving claims about the technology, and they could ultimately pursue criminal charges or…

Photo: PATRICK PLEUL/POOL/AFP (Getty Images)It seems the richest man in the world is not without problems. Reuters reports that Tesla is currently facing a previously undisclosed criminal probe from the Justice Department over its advanced driver assistance system, Autopilot. The probe, which has been ongoing since last year and was kicked off not long after several deadly crashes involving the feature, is seeking to investigate whether Tesla misled the public and investors about the reliability of its autonomous…

Tesla is reportedly under criminal investigation by the Department of Justice in the United States over self-driving claims. Over the last few months, there has been mounting pressure from regulators, politicians, and the media regarding Tesla’s self-driving effort. Tesla Autopilot has been under NHTSA investigation for a year now, and Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta has been under attack by a well-financed smear campaign that has reached politicians. These are both challenges that Tesla has faced…

The Justice Department’s antitrust investigation into professional golf includes the powerhouse bodies Augusta National Golf Club and the United States Golf Association, in addition to the PGA Tour, according to people familiar with the matter. The PGA Tour is battling the upstart, Saudi-backed LIV Golf’s bid to establish a rival golf tour that has already lured away a number of star players. The DOJ antitrust division’s scrutiny of the PGA Tour was first reported by The Wall Street Journal in July. Players’ agents have…

Richard Vanderford / Wall Street Journal: Google agrees to improve its compliance program for legal demands in a settlement with the US DOJ, which said Google lost data sought by investigators in 2016 — The tech company will be monitored by a compliance professional after the Justice Department said Google lost data sought in a U.S. investigation Richard Vanderford / Wall Street Journal: Google agrees to improve its compliance program for legal demands in a settlement with the US DOJ, which said…

When the Justice Department announced it seized billions in stolen cryptocurrency earlier this year, it seemed like great news for victims of a hack that drained around $70 million from customers' accounts on the Bitfinex trading platform in 2016. "It was the biggest relief of my life," said Frankie Cavazos, who lost 15 bitcoins in the hack. Over the course of the last six years, the value of the stolen crypto skyrocketed. At the time of the hack, a single bitcoin was worth less than a thousand dollars. Today it would be…

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Associated Press: A US judge sentences Capital One hacker Paige Thompson, who accessed data on over 100M people, to five years of probation; DOJ says it is “very disappointed” — A former Seattle tech worker convicted of several charges related to a massive hack of Capital One bank and other companies … Associated Press: A US judge sentences Capital One hacker Paige Thompson, who accessed data on over 100M people, to five years of probation; DOJ says it is “very…