Published on: 2025-06-05 20:38:13
The Ukrainian police arrested a 35-year-old hacker who breached 5,000 accounts at an international hosting company and used them to mine cryptocurrency, resulting in $4.5 million in damages. "The suspect illegally gained access to over 5,000 accounts belonging to clients of an international hosting company that provides server rental services for the operation of various websites and online platforms," reads the police's announcement. "After gaining access to these accounts, the perpetrator be
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 08:49:09
Apple and Google clash with police and MPs over phone thefts 12 minutes ago Share Save Tom Gerken Technology reporter Share Save The Met Police seized more than 1,000 handsets in a crackdown in February Senior figures at Apple and Google have clashed with the police over its recommendations for how best to deal with phone theft in the UK. The Met's James Conway told the Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee - which is considering the question - that two-thirds of thefts in Lond
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 17:16:00
Far from Chicago, nearly three weeks after the mayhem began, an eager, 28-year-old Kansas City homicide detective named David Barton sat down in his living room to watch the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather. Like most cops, he’d been following the Tylenol case from a distance while attending to local crimes in Kansas City. Neither Chicago police nor the FBI had figured out a motive for the poisonings, nor had they made much progress in terms of a suspect, save for the apparent hoaxster Richardso
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 21:03:39
Police believe live facial recognition cameras may become “commonplace” in England and Wales, according to internal documents, with the number of faces scanned having doubled to nearly 5m in the last year. A joint investigation by the Guardian and Liberty Investigates highlights the speed at which the technology is becoming a staple of British policing. Major funding is being allocated and hardware bought, while the British state is also looking to enable police forces to more easily access th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 14:53:00
Through the looking glass: The controversial use of facial recognition technology in New Orleans highlights tensions that cities face in balancing artificial intelligence-driven policing with civil liberties. Supporters call it a vital tool for modern law enforcement, while critics warn that unchecked surveillance endangers fundamental rights. For two years, New Orleans quietly served as a testing ground for one of the most ambitious – and controversial – uses of facial recognition in American
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Through the looking glass: The controversial use of facial recognition technology in New Orleans highlights tensions that cities face in balancing artificial intelligence-driven policing with civil liberties. Supporters call it a vital tool for modern law enforcement, while critics warn that unchecked surveillance endangers fundamental rights. For two years, New Orleans quietly served as a testing ground for one of the most ambitious – and controversial – uses of facial recognition in American
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-02 16:37:23
New Orleans' police force secretly used constant facial recognition to seek out suspects for two years. An investigation by The Washington Post discovered that the city's police department was using facial recognition technology on a privately owned camera network to continually look for suspects. This application seems to violate a city ordinance passed in 2022 that required facial recognition only be used by the NOLA police to search for specific suspects of violent crimes and then to provide
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-03 15:56:40
New Orleans police have reportedly spent years scanning live feeds of city streets and secretly using facial recognition to identify suspects in real time—in seeming defiance of a city ordinance designed to prevent false arrests and protect citizens' civil rights. A Washington Post investigation uncovered the dodgy practice, which relied on a private network of more than 200 cameras to automatically ping cops' phones when a possible match for a suspect was detected. Court records and public dat
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New Orleans police have reportedly spent years scanning live feeds of city streets and secretly using facial recognition to identify suspects in real time—in seeming defiance of a city ordinance designed to prevent false arrests and protect citizens' civil rights. A Washington Post investigation uncovered the dodgy practice, which relied on a private network of more than 200 cameras to automatically ping cops' phones when a possible match for a suspect was detected. Court records and public dat
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-13 05:00:00
Companies like Flock and Axon sell suites of sensors—cameras, license plate readers, gunshot detectors, drones—and then offer AI tools to make sense of that ocean of data (at last year’s conference I saw schmoozing between countless AI-for-police startups and the chiefs they sell to on the expo floor). Departments say these technologies save time, ease officer shortages, and help cut down on response times. Those sound like fine goals, but this pace of adoption raises an obvious question: Who m
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 11:10:00
Police and federal agencies have found a controversial new way to skirt the growing patchwork of laws that curb how they use facial recognition: an AI model that can track people based on attributes like body size, gender, hair color and style, clothing, and accessories. The tool, called Track and built by the video analytics company Veritone, is used by 400 customers, including state and local police departments and universities all over the US. It is also expanding federally. The product has
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-02 23:20:06
is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority says it’s exploring the use of AI systems for “predictive prevention” of crime and dangerous behavior on the city’s subway platforms. MTA chief security officer Michael Kemper said that the agency is “studying and piloting technology like AI to sense potential trouble or problematic behavior on our subway platforms.” “If some
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-07 16:30:00
Automakers are increasingly pushing consumers to accept monthly and annual fees to unlock pre-installed safety and performance features, from hands-free driving systems and heated seats to cameras that can automatically record accident situations. But the additional levels of internet connectivity this subscription model requires can increase drivers’ exposure to government surveillance and the likelihood of being caught up in police investigations. A cache of more than two dozen police records
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-17 16:06:11
On April 16th, Thailand’s Royal Thai Police introduced their newest colleague, “AI Police Cyborg 1.0,” in a Facebook post stating that the robot was deployed on Tonson Road in Muang District. One photograph shows the robot dressed in a police uniform while it stands on a wheeled metal platform lined by other uniformed officials. Jointly developed by the Provincial Police Command 7, Nakhon Pathom Provincial Police, and Nakhon Nakhon Pathon Municipality, the robot has a number of chilling capabil
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-18 12:30:57
Unperturbed by the dystopian optics, the Royal Thai Police have deployed a humanoid police robot during a festival. As the Straits Times reports, the unsettling robot, dubbed "AI police cyborg 1.0" — even though it's technically more of an android and not a cyborg — surveyed the streets during the country's Songkran festival using 360-degree cameras. According to the report, the cyborg is equipped with facial recognition technology and can notify officers of high-risk individuals and weapons.
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Americans are taking to the streets and showing up in US cities by the thousands to protest a plethora of President Donald Trump’s second-term policies, and to challenge the power that Trump has bestowed upon Elon Musk to disrupt the federal government. Public outcry and acts of civil disobedience have become more commonplace over the past several years, as citizens have challenged Trump’s threats to women' s rights, travel bans from foreign nations and deportation policies, police brutality aga
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-06 07:42:55
The Guardian reported that the UK's Ministry of Justice has been developing an algorithm designed to identify people who could become killers. Initially dubbed the "homicide prediction project," this tool used data from UK police forces, possibly including victims and witnesses as well as suspects. Civil liberty watchdog Statewatch discovered the program through Freedom of Information Act requests. Based on the documents acquired by the group, Statewatch claimed that the program developed its p
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The Guardian reported that the UK's Ministry of Justice has been developing an algorithm designed to identify people who could become killers. Initially dubbed the "homicide prediction project," this tool used data from UK police forces, possibly including victims and witnesses as well as suspects. Civil liberty watchdog Statewatch discovered the program through Freedom of Information Act requests. Based on the documents acquired by the group, Statewatch claimed that the program developed its p
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-09 08:56:16
Spain's police arrested six individuals behind a large-scale cryptocurrency investment scam that used AI tools to generate deepfake ads featuring popular public figures to lure people. The scam was very successful, defrauding 19 million Euros ($20.9M) from 208 victims worldwide. The police operation, codenamed "COINBLACK – WENDMINE," started two years ago following the submission of a victim's complaint. The action led to the arrests of six individuals aged between 34 and 57 in the regions of
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-23 06:14:06
Two police officers walked into a doughnut shop. It’s not the opening line of a joke; it’s what I saw as I was working on an early draft of this story in March at the Staunton Dunkin’, about a quarter mile from where my vehicle was captured on a Flock camera in January and February coming back from my trips to Cardinal’s Roanoke office. Their eyes may have strayed to the racks of Boston creme, lemon-filled and coconut-covered doughnuts as they strode to the counter with purpose, but they were
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-23 16:14:06
Two police officers walked into a doughnut shop. It’s not the opening line of a joke; it’s what I saw as I was working on an early draft of this story in March at the Staunton Dunkin’, about a quarter mile from where my vehicle was captured on a Flock camera in January and February coming back from my trips to Cardinal’s Roanoke office. Their eyes may have strayed to the racks of Boston creme, lemon-filled and coconut-covered doughnuts as they strode to the counter with purpose, but they were
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-23 16:58:24
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police held a press conference Thursday to announce the arrest of 36-year-old Paul Kim in connection to vehicle fires at a Tesla Collision Center on March 18, 2025. Kim allegedly set fire to multiple Tesla vehicles, discharged a firearm, and spray-painted “resist” on the building, according to authorities, and has been charged with both state and federal crimes. Police allege Kim was the person seen in surveillance video on March 18, 2025, arriving in a black Hyundai Elan
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-30 20:18:27
In what that sounds like the plot of a thriller, an iPad thrown into London’s River Thames spent more than five years underwater before it was found and provided key evidence to convict three men of attempted murder – all the more so given that the man shot was a key figure in one of the world’s biggest ever armed robberies … One of the world’s biggest ever armed robberies Paul Allen was one of eight men convicted of taking part in an armed robbery of a cash depot back in 2006. The security de
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-10 07:56:49
AirTags aren’t designed to prevent theft, but they’ve proven to be a really useful tool. Now, the Denver Police Department has announced it will give out hundreds of AirTags as part of its ongoing efforts to prevent car thefts. The Denver Police Department is teaming up with the Colorado Auto Theft Prevention Authority (CATPA) to distribute 450 AirTag and Samsung SmartTag item trackers to residents, as spotted by Gizmodo. In an announcement this week, the Denver Police Department said: With t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-10 23:30:02
The Denver Police Department is giving out hundreds of Apple AirTags and Samsung SmartTags as part of a program called DenverTrack to monitor car thefts, according to a press release Tuesday. The department will give out 450 trackers over three days, from March 19-21. Signing up for the program “preauthorizes” the Denver Police Department to “work with GPS information, provided by a vehicle owner, when a vehicle is reported stolen.” But police say they’re not gaining any kind of direct access t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-11 15:00:03
It’s been a plot point in countless TV police procedurals. And now it’s a question in one of the most followed homicide cases in recent memory. The police who arrested Luigi Mangione for allegedly killing a healthcare CEO in late 2024 gave him a snack just to get his DNA, according to a new report from ABC News. At least that’s what his local lawyer in Pennsylvania alleges. Mangione was arrested on Dec. 9 at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania after a patron of the restaurant reportedly told
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-19 01:55:29
Indian police have arrested the co-founder of Garantex, a Russian cryptocurrency exchange sanctioned by the European Union and the U.S. government, under India’s extradition law, TechCrunch has exclusively learned and confirmed with state authorities. At 4 p.m. local time (3:30 a.m. PT) on Tuesday, the state police of Kerala arrested Lithuanian national Aleksej Besciokov in the coastal municipality of Varkala, a state police official who made the arrest confirmed to TechCrunch. The police offi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-20 07:55:29
Indian police have arrested the co-founder of Garantex, a Russian cryptocurrency exchange sanctioned by the European Union and the U.S. government, under India’s extradition law, TechCrunch has exclusively learned and confirmed with state authorities. At 4 p.m. local time (3:30 a.m. PT) on Tuesday, the state police of Kerala arrested Lithuanian national Aleksej Besciokov in the coastal municipality of Varkala, a state police official who made the arrest confirmed to TechCrunch. The police offi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-24 10:38:52
Hundreds of protestors gathered outside a Tesla dealership in Lower Manhattan on Saturday, remaining there for two hours and effectively shutting down the location, the New York Times reports, with some attendees even storming the building. The demonstration is among the latest expressions of public backlash against the electric vehicle maker's CEO Elon Musk, who's become an increasingly controversial figure since serving as a senior advisor to president Donald Trump, leading initiatives to gut
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-30 16:49:32
Drivers love Apple CarPlay because it enables safe interaction with iPhone apps through the car’s built-in screen. It turns out police in Australia are benefiting from CarPlay for a whole other safety purpose. Law enforcement vehicles in Western Australia are using CarPlay to help identify vehicles of interest without the need for specialized equipment inside the car. Here’s how it works: Western Australia Police Force (WA Police Force) is conducting faster and better-informed investigations a
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