Consumer & Gadgets
Law enforcement agencies nationwide regularly sell items that are seized in criminal investigations or are unclaimed from lost-and-found inventories. Many of these items—vehicles, jewelry, watches and electronic devices ...
Jul 17, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
Government agencies and private security companies in the U.S. have found a cost-effective way to engage in warrantless surveillance of individuals, groups and places: a pay-for-access web tool called Fog Reveal.
Oct 17, 2022
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Security
A team of researchers is helping law enforcement crack down on email scammers, thanks to a new visual analytics tool that dramatically speeds up forensic email investigations and highlights critical links within email data. ...
Nov 1, 2018
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Consumer & Gadgets
Tech mandated by the UK Government's Online Safety Bill could be used to turn millions of phones into facial recognition tools.
May 19, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Can artificial intelligence (AI) methods reliably detect child pornography images on end devices?
Sep 12, 2022
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Security
European and North American cyber cops have joined forces to disrupt what may be the world's largest network for seeding malware infections, striking a major blow against criminal gangs that have been using it for years to ...
Jan 27, 2021
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Security
As nationwide protests force a deep examination of police tactics and funding, technology companies say they are re-evaluating their relationship with law enforcement as well. Amazon has halted police use of its facial recognition ...
Jul 8, 2020
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Security
The chunky, thick-framed glasses Scott Urban makes in his Chicago workshop look like normal eye glasses, but when viewed on a security camera, the wearer's face becomes a shining orb.
Apr 22, 2020
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Computer Sciences
In the 2002 movie Minority Report (based on a short story by Philip K Dick), director Steven Spielberg imagined a future in which three psychics can "see" murders before they happen. Their clairvoyance allows Tom Cruise and ...
Oct 25, 2022
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Engineering
Cybercriminals can run, but they cannot hide from their digital fingerprints.
Mar 7, 2019
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