UK police to trial new forensic footwear identification process
Forensic experts in the U.K. are taking new steps to identify criminals caught on CCTV using the shoes they are wearing.
Nov 27, 2023
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Disneyland's Facebook and Instagram hacked, spammed with racist posts
Disneyland's Facebook and Instagram accounts were hacked early Thursday and smeared with offensive, racist posts, prompting the theme park to release a statement.
Jul 8, 2022
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Robotics
Virtual reality robots could help teleport juries to crime scenes
Juries are seldom allowed to visit crime scenes. There are exceptions, usually in difficult, high-profile murder cases such as the O.J Simpson trial in 1995 in the US and the Jill Dando murder trial in 2001 in the UK. But ...
Aug 26, 2016
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Fintechs use rule-making pause to fight cryptocurrency proposal
Financial technology firms are fighting a Treasury Department anti-crime proposal that would require them to gather much more information about their customers' use of cryptocurrencies.
Jan 27, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Fingerprinting with machine vision
Traditional fingerprint identification methods can struggle with accurately identifying feature points in smaller regions. This is usually where a subset of fingerprints that are of limited size might typically be found in ...
Jan 29, 2024
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Hi Tech & Innovation
How automation is assisting forensic scientists in shoe print identification
On the morning of Dec. 21, 1999, William Fyfe went to a clothing drop-off at Trinity Church in Toronto and left three pairs of running shoes. An undercover Ontario Provincial Police officer was tailing him, and retrieved ...
Feb 12, 2024
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Food fraud is a growing economic and health issue, but AI and blockchain technology can help combat it
A multi-billion pound criminal enterprise lurks amid our supermarket shelves. Food crime not only harms our wallets but threatens public health. It includes activities such as mislabelling a product, replacing a food or ingredient ...
Apr 3, 2024
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Oakland, Calif., bars city from using facial recognition technology
Oakland police and other city departments will not use facial recognition technology under a new policy—the third of its kind in the United States.
Jul 18, 2019
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Machine learning & AI
AI could revolutionise DNA evidence – but right now we can't trust the machines
DNA evidence often isn't as watertight as many people think. Sensitive techniques developed over the past 20 years mean that police can now detect minute traces of DNA at a crime scene or on a piece of evidence. But traces ...
Jan 29, 2020
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South Korea opens Telegram deepfake porn probe
South Korean police said Monday they had launched an investigation into encrypted messaging platform Telegram for allegedly "abetting" the distribution of so-called deepfake porn, including explicit AI generated images of ...
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