Search for content with this keyword
Silicon Valley is piling into the business of snooping. Tech upstarts are selling their wares to America’s police | Business (2023)
In fact, the Windy City could offer a model for change across America | United States (2023)
The property market makes a good place to hide ill-gotten gains | Europe (2021)
by Rashida Richardson, Jason Schultz, Kate Crawford :: SSRN In a research paper titled “Dirty Data, Bad Predictions,” lead author Rashida Richa... (2020)
Rubber bullets fired on protesters can kill. So why are we using them? (2020)
As millions of people across the country take to the streets and raise their voices in response to the killing of George Floyd and the ongoing prob... (2020)
Across the United States and Europe, software is making probation decisions and predicting whether teens will commit crime. Opponents want more hum... (2020)
The city, stepping into a debate over privacy, says it will use real-time facial recognition technology “to tackle serious crime.” (2020)
Metropolitan Police officers set up the camera on a van in Romford, East London, which then cross-checked photos of faces of passers-by against a d... (2019)
A new college admissions scandal is just the latest proof of a grossly uneven playing field. (2019)
Authorities say the defendants used “bribery and other forms of fraud” to facilitate their children’s admission schools such as Georgetown, Yale an... (2019)
Two couples sheltered Uri Berliner's family when the Nazis came to power. One thrived; the other paid a terrible price. (2018)
In a new study, 74 out of 108 crime laboratories implicated an innocent person in a hypothetical bank robbery. (2018)
Sicily’s mafia sprang from the growing global market for lemons – a tale with sour parallels for consumers today (2018)
The justices ruled 5-4 that police need a search warrant to obtain cellphone location information routinely collected by wireless providers. (2018)
Ruthless mafia-like militias have taken over much of the Brazilian city, killing whomever they want, from City Council members to bird thieves. (2018)
Crime now costs Latin America’s largest economy over $75 billion a year, double the amount of two decades prior, and efforts to combat its spread h... (2018)
More than two dozen civil rights organizations asked the tech giant to stop selling its image recognition system to law enforcement agencies... (2018)
The Mafia is often cited as one of the main reasons why Sicily has lagged behind the rest of Italy in economic and social development. This column ... (2018)
A local government launches a novel bid this week to fight organised crime. (2018)
Police in Raleigh, North Carolina, have presented Google with warrants to obtain data from mobile phones from not just specific suspects who were i... (2018)
Lonely seniors are shoplifting in search of the community and stability of jail. (2018)
NIGERIANS know what to expect when they approach police checkpoints. “How can you appreciate me?” ask officers, AK-47s dangling languidly from thei... (2018)
FEW people are more respected by the majority of Italians than those who fight their country’s powerful organised crime syndicates. (2018)
A 19-YEAR-OLD man wearing a gas mask and toting an assault rifle rampaged through his former school in Florida on February 14th, killing 17 pupils. (2018)
ON DECEMBER 31st the world’s oldest coffeeshop, Mellow Yellow, in Amsterdam, was forced to roll down its bright yellow shutters one last time. (2018)
PAKISTAN’S blasphemy laws have been a source of infamy for decades. International human-rights groups regularly document their abusive implementati... (2018)
IN 1904 the Herero people of modern-day Namibia rose up against German colonists, who had seized and settled much of their land. The response of th... (2018)
THE estimate is loose but noteworthy nonetheless. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime reckons that every year crooks launder between $800b... (2018)
THE International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which was established by the United Nations Security Council in 1993, closes ... (2018)
Mexican cartels and criminals are the leading producers of illegal synthetic drugs. This shift is fuelling the latest phase in America’s opioid cri... (2022)
Edward Snowden is an American whistleblower who copied and leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency in 2013 when he w... (2019)
On any given night, more than 450,000 people in the United States are locked up in jail simply because they don't have enough money to pay bail. Th... (2018)
John Oliver explains why America’s bail system is better for the reality tv industry than it is for the justice system. Connect with Last Week Toni... (2018)
TED-Ed Published on Jan 25, 2018 When historians talk about the atrocities of the 20th century, we often think of those that took place during ... (2018)
Business Insider, 2017, "Cathy O'Neil, a self-proclaimed math nerd and author of "Weapons of Math Destruction" explains how police data leads to b... (2017)
The 1996 law is praised by the tech industry as the core pillar of Internet freedom. But its path also runs through some of the darkest corners of ... (2018)
Listen to this episode from 99% Invisible on Spotify. Computer algorithms now shape our world in profound and mostly invisible ways. They predict i... (2022)
Description: From the bestselling author of On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler's and Stalin's wars against the civilians of Europe in Wor... (2018)
Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prisoners and Soviet archives, Aleksandr I. Solzhenits... (2021)