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With These New Digital Tools, Citizens Can Help Police Solve Crimes | Technology on GOOD - 0 views

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As our connectivity increases, we're seeing a growing number of cases of law enforcement using social media and other digital tools to help solve crimes. A study from Accenture, a global management and consulting agency, showed that 72 percent of respondent citizens believe that social media can help in crime investigations and in the prosecution of offenders.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">As our connectivity increases, we're seeing a growing number of cases of law enforcement using social media and other digital tools to help solve crimes. A study from Accenture, a global management and consulting agency, showed that 72 percent of respondent citizens believe that social media can help in crime investigations and in the prosecution of offenders.</div>

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Predicting crime, LAPD-style | Cities | theguardian.com - 0 views

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"The algorithm at play is performing what's commonly referred to as predictive policing. Using years - and sometimes decades - worth of crime reports, the algorithm analyses the data to identify areas with high probabilities for certain types of crime, placing little red boxes on maps of the city that are streamed into patrol cars."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The algorithm at play is performing what's commonly referred to as predictive policing. Using years - and sometimes decades - worth of crime reports, the algorithm analyses the data to identify areas with high probabilities for certain types of crime, placing little red boxes on maps of the city that are streamed into patrol cars."</div>

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World-Check terrorism database exposed online - BBC News - 0 views

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"A financial crime database used by banks has been "leaked" on to the net. World-Check Risk Screening contains details about people and organisations suspected of being involved in terrorism, organised crime and money laundering, among other offences. Access is supposed to be restricted under European privacy law"

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"A financial crime database used by banks has been "leaked" on to the net. World-Check Risk Screening contains details about people and organisations suspected of being involved in terrorism, organised crime and money laundering, among other offences. Access is supposed to be restricted under European privacy law"</div>

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Yik Yak: the anonymous app taking US college campuses by storm | Technology | theguardi... - 0 views

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"Yik Yak has come in for a lot of criticism for being a breeding ground for rumour and bullying - and more serious content. Myriad threats of violence, sex crimes and hate crimes have been reported, including a mass shooting threat and the circulation of a sex tape. It wouldn't be unfair to say it has gained a reputation for being a scourge among parents."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Yik Yak has come in for a lot of criticism for being a breeding ground for rumour and bullying - and more serious content. Myriad threats of violence, sex crimes and hate crimes have been reported, including a mass shooting threat and the circulation of a sex tape. It wouldn't be unfair to say it has gained a reputation for being a scourge among parents."</div>

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Snooper's charter: wider police powers to hack phones and access web history | World ne... - 0 views

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"The bill will now allow police to access all web browsing records in specific crime investigations, beyond the illegal websites and communications services specified in the original draft bill. It will extend the use of state remote computer hacking from the security services to the police in cases involving a "threat to life" or missing persons. This can include cases involving "damage to somebody's mental health", but will be restricted to use by the National Crime Agency and a small number of major police forces."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The bill will now allow police to access all web browsing records in specific crime investigations, beyond the illegal websites and communications services specified in the original draft bill. It will extend the use of state remote computer hacking from the security services to the police in cases involving a "threat to life" or missing persons. This can include cases involving "damage to somebody's mental health", but will be restricted to use by the National Crime Agency and a small number of major police forces."</div>

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The terrifying, hidden reality of Ridiculously Complicated Algorithms - 0 views

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""Weapons of math destruction" is how the writer Cathy O'Neil describes the nasty and pernicious kinds of algorithms that are not subject to the same challenges that human decision-makers are. Parole algorithms (not Jure's) can bias decisions on the basis of income or (indirectly) ethnicity. Recruitment algorithms can reject candidates on the basis of mistaken identity. In some circumstances, such as policing, they might create feedback loops, sending police into areas with more crime, which causes more crime to be detected."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">""Weapons of math destruction" is how the writer Cathy O'Neil describes the nasty and pernicious kinds of algorithms that are not subject to the same challenges that human decision-makers are. Parole algorithms (not Jure's) can bias decisions on the basis of income or (indirectly) ethnicity. Recruitment algorithms can reject candidates on the basis of mistaken identity. In some circumstances, such as policing, they might create feedback loops, sending police into areas with more crime, which causes more crime to be detected."</div>

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Police across the US are training crime-predicting AIs on falsified data - MIT Technolo... - 0 views

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"The system used historical data, including arrest records and electronic police reports, to forecast crime and help shape public safety strategies, according to company and city government materials. At no point did those materials suggest any effort to clean or amend the data to address the violations revealed by the DOJ. In all likelihood, the corrupted data was fed directly into the system, reinforcing the department's discriminatory practices."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The system used historical data, including arrest records and electronic police reports, to forecast crime and help shape public safety strategies, according to company and city government materials. At no point did those materials suggest any effort to clean or amend the data to address the violations revealed by the DOJ. In all likelihood, the corrupted data was fed directly into the system, reinforcing the department's discriminatory practices."</div>

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Over 400,000 crime records could be affected by police computer error | Priti Patel | T... - 0 views

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"More than 400,000 crime records could have been affected by a data blunder, with records for serious offences supposed to be kept forever accidentally deleted and police fearing criminals may not be caught, a letter from a senior officer reveals. The records were accidentally deleted due to a coding error on 10 January, and the incident affects fingerprints, DNA, and arrest records on the police national computer (PNC)."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"More than 400,000 crime records could have been affected by a data blunder, with records for serious offences supposed to be kept forever accidentally deleted and police fearing criminals may not be caught, a letter from a senior officer reveals. The records were accidentally deleted due to a coding error on 10 January, and the incident affects fingerprints, DNA, and arrest records on the police national computer (PNC)."</div>

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The Citizen crime app hasn't made me safer - just more scared | Emma Brockes | Opinion ... - 0 views

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"Citizen, which was launched in 2017, is a glorified police scanner that promises to help users "stay safe and informed". It invites input from witnesses - mostly involving shaky phone footage of police milling around while a stretcher is carted by in the background - and, bafflingly, includes a comments section, in which users speculate fatuously on the crime in question and quibble over the accuracy of the map function. It is grimly fascinating, mildly addictive and, relative to its stated aims, totally without value."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Citizen, which was launched in 2017, is a glorified police scanner that promises to help users "stay safe and informed". It invites input from witnesses - mostly involving shaky phone footage of police milling around while a stretcher is carted by in the background - and, bafflingly, includes a comments section, in which users speculate fatuously on the crime in question and quibble over the accuracy of the map function. It is grimly fascinating, mildly addictive and, relative to its stated aims, totally without value."</div>

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"That can include statistical or machine learning algorithms that rely on police records detailing the time, location, and nature of past crimes in a bid to predict if, when, where, and who may commit future infractions. In theory, this should help authorities use resources more wisely and spend more time policing certain neighborhoods that they think will yield higher crime rates."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"That can include statistical or machine learning algorithms that rely on police records detailing the time, location, and nature of past crimes in a bid to predict if, when, where, and who may commit future infractions. In theory, this should help authorities use resources more wisely and spend more time policing certain neighborhoods that they think will yield higher crime rates."</div>

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Crime map website a victim of its own success | UK news | The Guardian - 0 views

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Francis Maude: 'The internet is too large for any organisation to fight cyber crime alo... - 0 views

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Researchers find over 100 spying Tor nodes that attempt to compromise darknet sites / B... - 0 views

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"There aren't many exit nodes out there. Many people fear that running an exit node will put them in police crosshairs if it gets used in the commission of a crime. For the record, Boing Boing runs a very high-capacity exit node, and though we've received multiple contacts from US law enforcement, we've just explained that this is a Tor node that runs with logging switched off, and thus we have no information that'll be relevant to any investigations, and the officers involved have thanked us and gone away without further trouble. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"There aren't many exit nodes out there. Many people fear that running an exit node will put them in police crosshairs if it gets used in the commission of a crime. For the record, Boing Boing runs a very high-capacity exit node, and though we've received multiple contacts from US law enforcement, we've just explained that this is a Tor node that runs with logging switched off, and thus we have no information that'll be relevant to any investigations, and the officers involved have thanked us and gone away without further trouble. "</div>

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First Cambodian gets jailed over anti-government Facebook post - 0 views

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"A 24-year-old university student, Kong Raya, was sentenced to 18 months in jail on Tuesday, after being found guilty of inciting crimes with an anti-government post he made on Facebook, a Phnom Penh court said."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"A 24-year-old university student, Kong Raya, was sentenced to 18 months in jail on Tuesday, after being found guilty of inciting crimes with an anti-government post he made on Facebook, a Phnom Penh court said."</div>

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Zebedee scanner lets police build 3D maps of crime scenes in minutes | Technology | the... - 0 views

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"The handheld Zebedee scanner, developed by the CSIRO, uses a powerful laser to sweep an environment and create a 3D map accurate to the centimetre. The scanner had already been used and was saving police "many thousands of hours in investigation", Queensland police commissioner Ian Stewart said at the device's official launch on Friday."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The handheld Zebedee scanner, developed by the CSIRO, uses a powerful laser to sweep an environment and create a 3D map accurate to the centimetre. The scanner had already been used and was saving police "many thousands of hours in investigation", Queensland police commissioner Ian Stewart said at the device's official launch on Friday."</div>

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Police will have 'backdoor' access to health records despite opt-out, says MP | Society... - 0 views

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"David Davis MP, a former shadow home secretary, told the Guardian he has established that police will be able to access the health records of patients when investigating serious crimes even if they had opted out of the new database, which will hold the entire population's medical data in a single repository for the first time from May."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"David Davis MP, a former shadow home secretary, told the Guardian he has established that police will be able to access the health records of patients when investigating serious crimes even if they had opted out of the new database, which will hold the entire population's medical data in a single repository for the first time from May."</div>

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CryptoLocker Is The Nastiest Malware Ever - Here's What You Can Do - 0 views

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"Ransomware is an especially odious type of malware. The way it works is simple. Your computer will be infected with some malicious software. That software then renders your computer entirely unusable, sometimes purporting to be from local law enforcement and accusing you of committing a computer crime or viewing explicit pictures of children. It then demands monetary payment, either in the form of a ransom or a 'fine' before access to your computer is returned."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Ransomware is an especially odious type of malware. The way it works is simple. Your computer will be infected with some malicious software. That software then renders your computer entirely unusable, sometimes purporting to be from local law enforcement and accusing you of committing a computer crime or viewing explicit pictures of children. It then demands monetary payment, either in the form of a ransom or a 'fine' before access to your computer is returned."</div>

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Small commercial drones are being used to lift packages containing illicit goods from mobile phones to synthetic drugs into jails, where they threaten security by increasing the availability of intoxicants which can provoke disorder in prisons.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Small commercial drones are being used to lift packages containing illicit goods from mobile phones to synthetic drugs into jails, where they threaten security by increasing the availability of intoxicants which can provoke disorder in prisons.</div>

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BBC News - Spanish police arrest masterminds of 'massive' botnet - 0 views

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Billions spent on CCTV failed to cut crime, says top police surveillance chief | Mail O... - 0 views

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CCTV cams are becoming a FAILURE

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With These New Digital Tools, Citizens Can Help Police Solve Crimes | Technology on GOOD - 0 views

Predicting crime, LAPD-style | Cities | theguardian.com - 0 views

World-Check terrorism database exposed online - BBC News - 0 views

Yik Yak: the anonymous app taking US college campuses by storm | Technology | theguardi... - 0 views

Snooper's charter: wider police powers to hack phones and access web history | World ne... - 0 views

The terrifying, hidden reality of Ridiculously Complicated Algorithms - 0 views

Police across the US are training crime-predicting AIs on falsified data - MIT Technolo... - 0 views

Over 400,000 crime records could be affected by police computer error | Priti Patel | T... - 0 views

The Citizen crime app hasn't made me safer - just more scared | Emma Brockes | Opinion ... - 0 views

Mathematicians Boycott Police Work - 0 views

Crime map website a victim of its own success | UK news | The Guardian - 0 views

Francis Maude: 'The internet is too large for any organisation to fight cyber crime alo... - 0 views

Researchers find over 100 spying Tor nodes that attempt to compromise darknet sites / B... - 0 views

First Cambodian gets jailed over anti-government Facebook post - 0 views

Zebedee scanner lets police build 3D maps of crime scenes in minutes | Technology | the... - 0 views

Police will have 'backdoor' access to health records despite opt-out, says MP | Society... - 0 views

CryptoLocker Is The Nastiest Malware Ever - Here's What You Can Do - 0 views

Drones operated by criminal gangs used to deliver drugs, mobile phones and potentially ... - 0 views

BBC News - Spanish police arrest masterminds of 'massive' botnet - 0 views

Billions spent on CCTV failed to cut crime, says top police surveillance chief | Mail O... - 0 views

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