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Police using ‘predictive analytics’ to prevent crimes before they happen
Crime fighters have long used brains and brawn, but now a new kind of technology known as “predictive policing” promises to make them more efficient. A growing number of law enforcement agencies, in the US and elsewhere, have been adopting software tools with predictive analytics, based on algorithms that aim…
Report: Police spying on more cell phones than ever
U.S. law enforcement agencies are tracking more cellular devices than ever these days but obtaining fewer wiretapping warrants, according to a report by Eric Lichtblau, published in Sunday’s New York Times. That’s thanks in part to a proliferation in location-based technologies and flexible communications providers that turn over information based…
Rand Paul proposes bill to prevent warrantless drone surveillance
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced legislation on Tuesday that would prohibit law enforcement agencies from using unmanned aerial vehicles to conduct surveillance without a warrant. “I’m not against technology per se,” he explained on CNN. “What I am for are the constitutional processes that protect our civil liberties. So, you…
California lawmaker pushes to end warrantless cell phone tracking
California state Sen. Mark Leno (D) introduced legislation on Tuesday that would prohibit law enforcement agencies in the state from using a person’s cell phone to track their movement, unless they first got a warrant. “Our modern day smart phones and gadgets make it easy to get directions to just…
Gary Johnson decries domestic drones: ‘Big Brother is alive and well’
Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson on Friday blasted Congress for making the United States a “wide-open playground for government snooping.” Congress passed and Obama signed into law legislation to fund the Federal Aviation Administration through 2015. But the legislation also included provisions that would make it easier for law enforcement…
Arizona governor says immigration leads to beheadings
“Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded,” she says Arizona’s Republican governor is trumpeting her anti-immigration credentials as part of her re-election campaign –and her latest remarks about decapitation are sure to cause a firestorm. Gov.…
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