Slashdot Items Tagged "police"

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Tuesday March 05, 2024 @08:36PM Signal's New Usernames Help Keep Cops Out of Your Data
Friday March 01, 2024 @05:37PM Police Now Need Warrant For IP Addresses, Canada's Top Court Rules
Friday February 02, 2024 @10:34PM Police Departments Are Turning To AI To Sift Through Unreviewed Body-Cam Footage
Friday February 02, 2024 @04:29PM YouTube, Discord, and Lord of the Rings Led Police To a Teen Accused of a US Swatting Spree
Monday January 22, 2024 @07:17PM EFF Adds Street Surveillance Hub So Americans Can Check Who's Checking On Them
Thursday December 14, 2023 @08:22PM Suspects Can Refuse To Provide Phone Passcodes To Police, Court Rules
Monday November 06, 2023 @07:39PM Washington DC Gives Residents Free AirTags To Help Track Stolen Cars
Thursday November 02, 2023 @07:02PM Fusus' AI-Powered Cameras Are Spreading Across the United States
Thursday October 19, 2023 @08:02PM Hackers Compromise Accounts of Kodex, Company That Vets Police Data Requests For Tech Giants
Wednesday August 23, 2023 @03:16AM A Pennsylvania Court Says State Police Can't Hide How It Monitors Social Media
Tuesday July 18, 2023 @08:09PM NYPD To Test Public Announcement Drones During Emergencies
Tuesday May 16, 2023 @04:41PM Re-Victimization From Police-Auctioned Cell Phones
Tuesday April 18, 2023 @07:07PM Two UK Police Forces Unlawfully Recorded Phone Calls Via App, Watchdog Finds
Thursday April 13, 2023 @05:00PM Tech Executive Arrested In San Francisco Killing of Cash App Creator
Tuesday April 11, 2023 @10:25PM The NYPD Is Bringing Back Its Robot Dog
Monday March 27, 2023 @08:40PM Clearview AI Used Nearly 1 Million Times By US Police
Tuesday February 07, 2023 @05:32PM Developers Created AI To Generate Police Sketches. Experts Are Horrified
Monday January 16, 2023 @06:23PM Police Complaint Removes Pirate Bay Proxy Portal From GitHub
Wednesday December 28, 2022 @10:46AM Latest Uttarakhand Police Salary Slip 2023
Thursday December 22, 2022 @09:17AM Do You Have to Call the Police After a Minor Car Accident?
Monday November 28, 2022 @09:17AM China Covid: BBC journalist detained by police during protests | newsrobreak.us
Thursday November 24, 2022 @12:40AM San Francisco Police Seek Permission For Its Robots To Use Deadly Force
Monday November 21, 2022 @05:54PM Police Tracked Traffic of All National ISPs To Catch Pirate IPTV Users
Thursday November 10, 2022 @05:55PM Police Use DNA Phenotyping To Limit Pool of Suspects To 15,000
Monday October 31, 2022 @09:43PM Leaked Documents Outline DHS's Plans to Police Disinformation
Sunday October 30, 2022 @06:53PM China has opened police stations in US and Canada to monitor Chinese citizens:
Friday October 21, 2022 @05:51PM Interpol Launches 'First-Ever Metaverse' Designed For Global Law Enforcement
Friday September 30, 2022 @05:25PM NYPD Considers Using Encryption To Block Public From Radio Scanner Broadcasts
Friday September 30, 2022 @04:46PM House Democrats Debut New Bill To Limit US Police Use of Facial Recognition
Friday September 23, 2022 @04:34PM San Francisco Passes Controversial Surveillance Plan
Tuesday September 20, 2022 @04:50PM Civil Rights Groups Are Calling On Amazon To Cancel 'Ring Nation' Reality Show
Monday August 15, 2022 @05:27PM Police Used a Baby's DNA To Investigate Its Father For a Crime
Thursday July 28, 2022 @08:20PM New Orleans OKs Some Police Use of Facial Recognition
Friday July 08, 2022 @04:45PM Arizona Makes It Illegal For Bystanders To Record Cops At Close Range
Friday July 01, 2022 @08:11AM Police Tactic of Sweeping Google Searches To Find Suspects Faces First Legal Challenge
Thursday June 16, 2022 @11:30AM Police Linked To Hacking Campaign To Frame Indian Activists
Friday May 13, 2022 @05:49PM San Francisco Police Are Using Driverless Cars As Mobile Surveillance Cameras
Tuesday April 12, 2022 @05:50PM Cop Admits To Playing Copyrighted Music Through Squad Car PA To Keep Videos Off YouTube
Wednesday April 06, 2022 @05:48PM Police Records Show Women Are Stalked With Apple AirTags Across the Country
Tuesday February 08, 2022 @06:07PM NSO Group Gave Pegasus Spyware Demo To the NYPD
Tuesday January 18, 2022 @06:42PM Israeli Citizens Targeted By Police Using Pegasus Spyware, Report Claims
Wednesday December 22, 2021 @07:04PM New Policing System Will Send Drones To the Source of Gunshots
Saturday December 18, 2021 @12:37AM Boston Police Bought Spy Tech With a Pot of Money Hidden From the Public
Monday November 08, 2021 @07:32PM Transparency Activists Dump 1.8 Terabytes of Police Helicopter Surveillance Footage
Monday August 23, 2021 @05:33PM York Police Drone Damages Plane At Buttonville Airport
Friday May 21, 2021 @04:14PM Leaked Emails Show Crime App Citizen Is Testing On-Demand Security Force
Friday April 23, 2021 @06:22PM Someone Called the Cops On Their Own Smart Vacuum
Wednesday March 31, 2021 @05:50PM Police Say They Found Mafia Fugitive On YouTube, Posting Cooking Tutorials
Friday March 19, 2021 @04:27PM Police Warn Students To Avoid Sci-Hub
Thursday March 18, 2021 @05:39PM Police Report That White Supremacists Are Attacking Cell Phone Towers
Friday February 12, 2021 @05:33PM Minneapolis Bans Its Police Department From Using Facial Recognition Software
Tuesday February 09, 2021 @05:34PM Cops Are Playing Music While Citizens Are Filming To Trigger Copyright Filters
Monday February 01, 2021 @07:52PM Amazon's Ring Now Reportedly Partners With More Than 2,000 US Police and Fire Departments
Wednesday January 27, 2021 @05:13PM Police Dismantle World's 'Most Dangerous' Criminal Hacking Network
Monday January 04, 2021 @05:56PM Singapore Police Can Access COVID-19 Contact Tracing Data For Criminal Investigations
Wednesday December 30, 2020 @04:05PM Anonymous' Barrett Brown Raided By FBI During Online Chat
Tuesday December 29, 2020 @04:11PM Baltimore Issued Speed Camera Ticket To Motionless Car
Monday December 28, 2020 @04:34PM Florida Supreme Court: Police Can't Grab Cell Tower Data Without a Warrant
Tuesday December 22, 2020 @05:05PM France Bans Use of Drones To Police Protests In Paris
Tuesday December 01, 2020 @10:24PM Massachusetts Lawmakers Vote To Pass a Statewide Police Ban On Facial Recognition
Tuesday November 03, 2020 @07:45PM Police Will Pilot a Program To Live-Stream Amazon Ring Cameras
Wednesday October 21, 2020 @04:45PM Activists Turn Facial Recognition Tools Against the Police
Monday September 28, 2020 @05:20PM Police Charity Bought An iPhone Hacking Tool and Gave It To Cops
Thursday September 17, 2020 @05:32PM Encrochat Investigation Finds Corrupt Cops Leaking Information To Criminals
Wednesday September 16, 2020 @06:24PM Software Could Help Reform Policing -- If Only Police Unions Wanted It
Monday August 31, 2020 @05:51PM FBI Worried Ring and Other Doorbell Cameras Could Tip Owners Off To Police Searches
Wednesday August 26, 2020 @07:45PM Clearview AI CEO Says 'Over 2,400 Police Agencies' Are Using Its Facial Recognition Software
Wednesday August 12, 2020 @04:56AM Police Use of Facial Recognition Violates Human Rights, UK Court Rules
Friday July 10, 2020 @06:07PM Police Surveilled Protests With Help From Twitter-Affiliated Startup Dataminr
Friday July 10, 2020 @10:07AM Chicago Police Department Arrest API Shutdown is Its Own Kind of 'Cover Up'
Wednesday July 08, 2020 @05:07PM Police Are Buying Access To Hacked Website Data
Tuesday July 07, 2020 @06:19PM Cops Seize Server That Hosted BlueLeaks, DDoSecrets Says
Thursday July 02, 2020 @10:47AM How Police Secretly Took Over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime
Friday June 26, 2020 @04:15PM California City Bans Predictive Policing In US First
Monday June 22, 2020 @06:00PM 'BlueLeaks' Exposes Files From Hundreds of Police Departments
Wednesday June 17, 2020 @07:30PM FBI Used Etsy, LinkedIn To Make Arrest In Torching of Philadelphia Police Vehicles
Tuesday June 16, 2020 @07:18PM 'Hey Siri, I'm Getting Pulled Over': iPhone Feature Will Record Police Interaction, Send Location
Friday June 12, 2020 @04:58PM Many Police Departments Have Software That Can Identify People In Crowds
Wednesday June 10, 2020 @07:36PM Amazon Pauses Police Use of Facial Recognition Tech For a Year
Tuesday June 09, 2020 @04:53PM Audio Engineers Built a Shield To Deflect Police Sound Cannons
Tuesday June 09, 2020 @01:25AM IBM Gets Out of Facial Recognition Business, Calls On Congress To Advanced Policies Tackling Racial Injustice
Monday June 08, 2020 @08:01PM Senator Fears Clearview AI Facial Recognition Could Be Used On Protesters
Tuesday June 02, 2020 @04:59PM The 50 Years of Crowd Control Research Police Are Ignoring
Monday June 01, 2020 @04:06PM Pepper Spray Sales Soar On Amazon
Wednesday May 06, 2020 @04:40PM William Shatner Upset By Police Who Drew Guns Upon Stormtrooper On May 4th
Friday February 14, 2020 @11:45AM UK Police Deny Responsibility For Poster Urging Parents To Report Kids For Using Kali Linux
Tuesday February 04, 2020 @05:46PM Amazon's Ring Doorbell Update Allows Opt Out of All Police Video Requests
Thursday January 30, 2020 @05:24PM The Colorado Mystery Drones Weren't Real
Monday January 27, 2020 @03:41PM Met Police To Deploy Facial Recognition Cameras
Tuesday December 24, 2019 @07:45PM Mysterious Drones Flying Nighttime Patterns Baffle Colorado Officials
Tuesday December 03, 2019 @06:55PM Ring Reportedly Outed Camera Owners To Police With a Heat Map
Thursday November 28, 2019 @01:31AM Dubai Is Adding Tesla Cybertrucks To Its Police Car Fleet
Monday November 25, 2019 @07:15PM US Police Already Using 'Spot' Robot From Boston Dynamics In the Real World
Thursday November 21, 2019 @05:30PM Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules Police Can't Force You To Tell Them Your Password
Tuesday November 19, 2019 @05:43PM Cops Put GPS Tracker On Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft For Removing It
Wednesday November 13, 2019 @06:05PM The NYPD Kept an Illegal Database of Juvenile Fingerprints For Years
Tuesday November 05, 2019 @10:15PM 'Game-Changer' Warrant Let Detective Search Genetic Database
Monday October 28, 2019 @11:03PM Motorola Is Building a New Kind of Walkie-Talkie For First Responders
Friday October 04, 2019 @04:42PM Hong Kong Announces Ban On Masks, Face Paint That Helps Protesters Evade Facial Recognition
Monday September 30, 2019 @05:47PM Fugitive On Run For 17 Years Found Living In Cave By a Drone
Friday September 27, 2019 @04:45PM New Federal Rules Limit Police Searches of Family Tree DNA Databases
Thursday September 26, 2019 @05:06PM Uber Stopped Its Own Investigators From Reporting Crimes To the Police
Friday September 06, 2019 @05:46PM Police Shut Down 3,000-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek At IKEA
Wednesday August 28, 2019 @06:44PM Cops Hijack Botnet, Remotely Wipe Malware From 850,000 Computers
Tuesday August 13, 2019 @04:44PM $3 Million Fortnite Winner Becomes Latest Swatting Target
Monday August 05, 2019 @04:45PM Amazon Is Coaching Cops On How To Obtain Surveillance Footage Without a Warrant
Thursday August 01, 2019 @05:50PM Cops Are Giving Amazon's Ring Your Real-Time 911 Caller Data
Wednesday July 31, 2019 @04:55PM Everything Cops Say About Amazon's Ring Is Scripted Or Approved By Ring
Tuesday July 30, 2019 @01:25AM Amazon's Ring Reportedly Partners With 200 Law Enforcement Agencies
Friday July 12, 2019 @03:58PM Revealed: This Is Palantir's Top-Secret User Manual For Cops
Friday July 05, 2019 @03:17PM London Police's Face Recognition System Gets It Wrong 81 Percent of the Time
Friday May 17, 2019 @10:54PM Google Images + Facial Recognition Find Thief Who Looked Like Woody Harrelson
Friday April 19, 2019 @02:39PM Utah Bans Police From Searching Digital Data Without a Warrant
Saturday April 13, 2019 @01:47AM Hackers Publish Personal Data On Thousands of US Police Officers, Federal Agents
Monday April 01, 2019 @06:14PM LA County Is Using An Algorithm To Clear 50,000 Pot Convictions Faster
Friday March 22, 2019 @04:40PM Police Officers In Berlin Had To Break Up Fight Between Supporters of Two Rival YouTubers
Thursday February 28, 2019 @11:43AM Police In Canada Are Tracking People's 'Negative' Behavior In a 'Risk' Database
Thursday February 21, 2019 @08:44PM Waymo Self-Driving Cars Can Now Obey Police Hand Signals
Saturday February 16, 2019 @02:13AM Academics Confirm Major Predictive Policing Algorithm Is Fundamentally Flawed
Wednesday February 06, 2019 @10:48PM NYPD To Google: Stop Revealing the Location of Police Checkpoints
Thursday November 29, 2018 @11:05PM After Microsoft Complaints, Indian Police Arrest Tech Support Scammers At 26 Call Centers
Thursday November 29, 2018 @06:14PM Democrats Demand Info On Law Enforcement's Use of Amazon Facial Recognition Tool
Tuesday November 27, 2018 @02:58PM The Police in UK Want AI To Stop Violent Crime Before it Happens
Saturday November 17, 2018 @04:10PM EFF, MuckRock Partner To See How Local Police Are Trading Your Car's Location
Wednesday November 14, 2018 @02:04AM Man Pleads Guilty To Swatting Attack That Led To Death of Kansas Man
Wednesday November 07, 2018 @05:56PM Police Decrypt 258,000 Messages After Breaking Pricey IronChat Crypto App
Friday October 19, 2018 @06:00PM Smart Home Makers Hoard Your Data, But Won't Say If the Police Come For It
Sunday October 07, 2018 @01:41PM French Officer Caught Selling Access To State Surveillance System On the Darkweb
Monday October 01, 2018 @07:03PM Seattle Police Department Is Offering An Anti-Swatting Service
Saturday September 22, 2018 @12:18PM FBI Mysteriously Closes New Mexico Observatory
Wednesday August 15, 2018 @05:58PM Police Bodycams Can Be Hacked To Doctor Footage, Install Malware
Thursday August 09, 2018 @06:02PM Baltimore Police Department Is Still Using Lotus Notes
Friday July 13, 2018 @04:47PM Chinese Police Bust World Cup Gambling Ring With More Than $1 Billion In Cryptocurrency
Tuesday July 10, 2018 @07:54PM Orlando Police Decide To Keep Testing Controversial Amazon Facial Recognition Program
Monday July 09, 2018 @05:33PM Apple Releases iOS 11.4.1, Blocks Passcode Cracking Tools Used By Police
Friday July 06, 2018 @02:37AM German Police Raid Homes of Tor-Linked Group's Board Members
Tuesday June 26, 2018 @08:35PM Orlando Police End Test of Amazon's Real-Time Facial 'Rekognition' System
Monday June 11, 2018 @04:49PM Police Departments Are Training Dogs To Sniff Out Thumb Drives
Saturday May 26, 2018 @09:54PM Gamers Involved In Fatal Wichita 'Swatting' Indicted On Federal Charges
Wednesday May 16, 2018 @04:47PM Cops Will Soon ID You Via Your Roof Rack
Tuesday May 08, 2018 @06:06PM A Smart Doorbell Company Is Working With Cops To Report 'Suspicious' People, Activities
Tuesday May 08, 2018 @04:34PM Police Drop Charges Filed Against 19-Year-Old Archivist For Downloading FOIA Releases
Tuesday May 08, 2018 @03:35PM iOS 11.4 Disables Lightning Connector After 7 Days, Limiting Law Enforcement Access
Monday May 07, 2018 @04:47PM UK Police Say 92 Percent False Positive Facial Recognition Is No Big Deal
Monday March 26, 2018 @05:22PM ICE Uses Facebook Data To Find and Track Immigrants, Internal Emails Show
Sunday March 25, 2018 @10:38PM State Department Seemingly Buys $15,000 iPhone Cracking Tech GrayKey
Wednesday March 21, 2018 @07:30PM Police Release First Video From Inside the Uber Self-Driving Car That Killed a Pedestrian
Tuesday March 20, 2018 @04:13PM Police Chief: Uber Self-Driving Car 'Likely' Not At Fault In Fatal Crash
Wednesday March 14, 2018 @04:54PM New Bill In Congress Would Bypass the Fourth Amendment, Hand Your Data To Police
Friday February 16, 2018 @03:46AM China Reassigns 60,000 Soldiers To Plant Trees In Bid To Fight Pollution
Thursday February 08, 2018 @01:42AM Police In China Are Scanning Travelers With Facial Recognition Glasses
Wednesday January 31, 2018 @05:17PM Ford Patents Driverless Police Car That Ambushes Lawbreakers Using AI
Wednesday January 17, 2018 @05:57PM LAPD Is Not Using the Electric BMWs It Announced In 2016
Saturday December 30, 2017 @12:35PM Call of Duty Gaming Community Points To 'Swatting' In Wichita Police Shooting
Thursday December 28, 2017 @08:57PM A Manager of the Exmo Bitcoin Exchange Has Been Kidnapped In Ukraine
Wednesday December 13, 2017 @05:44PM Robots Are Being Used To Shoo Away Homeless People In San Francisco
Monday October 30, 2017 @07:46PM Calgary Police Cellphone Surveillance Device Must Remain Top Secret, Judge Rules
Friday October 20, 2017 @05:08PM Body Camera Study Shows No Effect On Police Use of Force Or Citizen Complaints
Friday October 20, 2017 @03:58PM Body Camera Giant Wants Police To Collect Your Videos Too
Friday September 01, 2017 @07:06PM US Cops Can't Keep License Plate Data Scans Secret Without Reason, Court Rules
Tuesday July 25, 2017 @04:59PM China Forces Muslim Minority To Install Spyware On Their Phones
Monday July 17, 2017 @05:06PM Facial Recognition Could Be Coming To Police Body Cameras
Wednesday June 28, 2017 @06:00PM London Metropolitan Police's 18,000 Windows XP PCs Is a Disaster Waiting To Happen
Tuesday June 27, 2017 @04:50PM Police Use Lyft As 'Trojan Horse' To Capture Suspect In Murder of Tech CEO
Tuesday June 06, 2017 @04:25PM Police In Oklahoma Have Cracked Hundreds of People's Cell Phones
Thursday June 01, 2017 @04:04PM Man Sentenced To 180 Days In Jail For Refusing To Give Police His iPhone Passcode
Wednesday May 24, 2017 @04:28PM Robot Police Officer Goes On Duty In Dubai
Wednesday May 10, 2017 @10:41AM Police To Test App That Assesses Suspects
Friday May 05, 2017 @04:07PM Cop Fakes Body Cam Footage, Prosecutors Drop Drug Charges
Thursday May 04, 2017 @08:56PM Digital Economy Act: Illegal Kodi Streams Could Now Land Users In Prison For 10 Years
Monday May 01, 2017 @04:03PM Taser Will Use Police Body Camera Videos 'To Anticipate Criminal Activity'
Wednesday April 26, 2017 @04:52PM British Cops Will Scan Every Fan's Face At the Champions League Final
Thursday April 06, 2017 @04:43PM London Police Ink Shadowy Deal With Industry On Website Takedowns
Wednesday April 05, 2017 @04:53PM Canada's RCMP National Police Force Reveals Use of Secretive Cellphone Surveillance Technology
Wednesday April 05, 2017 @03:59PM Taser Offers Free Body Cameras To All US Police
Friday March 31, 2017 @11:29PM Connecticut May Become First US State To Allow Deadly Police Drones
Wednesday March 29, 2017 @04:46PM Two Activists Who Secretly Recorded Planned Parenthood Face 15 Felony Charges
Friday March 17, 2017 @04:10PM Judge Grants Search Warrant For Everyone Who Searched a Crime Victim's Name On Google
Tuesday March 14, 2017 @02:36PM Facebook Admits Flaw in Image Moderation After BBC Report
Wednesday March 01, 2017 @09:49PM Can Technology Prevent Cops From Forgetting To Turn On Their Body Cameras?
Friday February 24, 2017 @07:20PM Appeals Court: You Have the Right To Film the Police
Wednesday February 15, 2017 @07:11PM Bipartisan Bill Seeks Warrants For Police Use of 'Stingray' Cell Trackers
Monday February 06, 2017 @06:05PM DC Inauguration Protestors Are Being Hit With Facebook Data Searches
Wednesday February 01, 2017 @06:04PM Police Use Pacemaker Data To Charge Homeowner With Arson, Insurance Fraud
Saturday January 28, 2017 @04:41PM Police Department Loses Years Worth of Evidence In Ransomware Incident
Tuesday December 27, 2016 @04:27PM Police Request Amazon Echo Recordings For Homicide Investigation
Tuesday December 13, 2016 @04:47PM Florida Court Says Suspected Voyeur Must Reveal His iPhone Passcode To Police
Friday December 09, 2016 @09:31PM Inside the NYPD's Attempt To Build Community Trust Through Twitter
Sunday December 04, 2016 @01:49PM Virginia Police Spent $500K For An Ineffective Cellphone Surveillance System
Thursday December 01, 2016 @07:21PM International Authorities Take Down Massive 'Avalanche' Botnet, Sinkhole Over 800,000 Domains
Thursday December 01, 2016 @06:32PM French Man Sentenced To Two Years In Prison For Visiting Pro-ISIS Websites
Monday November 28, 2016 @05:24PM EU's Law Enforcement Agency Closes 4,500 Websites Peddling Fake Brands
Friday November 25, 2016 @08:05AM Police in UK Warn About Dating Apps After Serial Killer Conviction
Tuesday November 22, 2016 @05:46PM Surveillance Firm 'Geofeedia' Cuts Half of Staff After Losing Access To Twitter, Facebook
Friday November 18, 2016 @06:58PM Major Cyberlocker EX.UA To Shut Down Amid Police Crackdown
Wednesday November 16, 2016 @05:34PM Police Raid Pirate Site, Seize 60 Servers Following MPAA Complaint
Tuesday November 01, 2016 @04:07PM Montreal Police Monitored iPhone of La Presse Journalist Patrick Lagace
Sunday October 23, 2016 @07:25PM US Police Consider Flying Drones Armed With Stun Guns
Saturday October 22, 2016 @08:49PM Feds Walk Into a Building, Demand Everyone's Fingerprints To Open Phones
Tuesday October 18, 2016 @04:15PM Half of American Adults Are In a Face-Recognition Database