Filed under: Technology If you’re a thief with a car, you may want to steer clear of Tiburon, California. As tantalizing a target as Tiburon may be — its median home price is $2.62 million, and Forbes ranks it as the 26th wealthiest Zip Code — the Bay Area enclave may become the first U.S. city to install cameras to photograph the license plates of every car that enters and leaves town. “I think it makes the community safe,” Michael Cronin, Tiburon’s police chief, said Wednesday, after the Town Council voted 4-0 to go ahead with the surveillance program, slated to go live within six months, according to the San Francisco Chronicle . But the exclusive waterfront hamlet 17 miles north of San Francisco could set a dangerous precedent, privacy experts warn. Continue reading Now entering Tiburon. Please get your license plates ready for their close-up Now entering Tiburon. Please get your license plates ready for their close-up originally appeared on DailyFinance on Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink | Email this | Comments

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Filed under: People , Investing With a mountain of evidence ranging from a cooperating witness to wiretapped confessions by an accomplice all but admitting guilt, prosecutors in the Galleon Group insider trading case might think they have an airtight case. But billionaire Galleon founder Raj Rajaratnam seems to be bracing for a fight. Last week Rajaratnam’s lawyers took to the offensive and succeeded in having cooperating witness Roomy Khan’s criminal background included in the hearings . Khan, a former employee of both Intel and Galleon, is a central witness against Rajaratnam. Khan has already pleaded guilty to trading on and passing on insider information as part of a plea agreement. Continue reading Galleon’s Raj Rajaratnam gears up for a legal showdown Galleon’s Raj Rajaratnam gears up for a legal showdown originally appeared on DailyFinance on Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink | Email this | Comments

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