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Recording police will lead to “excessive snooping” says Judge

One of the benefits of our rapidly improving technology is that it puts ways to easily record events and the people involved in them in the hands of the average citizen. While some see this as a ... continue

New Mexico State Trooper Caught Having Sex On Security Camera

A police officer in Santa Fe, New Mexico has been caught on security camera having sex in public with an unknown female. The officer was in his uniform and was having sex with the female on the hood ... continue

Major federal court ruling changes the game for filming law enforcement

One of the interesting side effects of the rapid growth of technologies like camera phones and the ability to record video with them that can then be uploaded online to places like YouTube is that the police ... continue

That whole no warrant needed for your mobile phone location info – not so fast says Federal Court

Back in January and April of this year my colleague Kim LaCapria and I wrote here about a growing trend of state courts what amounts to carte blanche in accessing your mobile phone location data from your ... continue

Police: We can detain photographers if we feel their photographs have no aesthetic value

There is a war going on right now across the United States. We don't hear much about it unless you follow people like Thomas Hawk or Carlos Miller, both of whom write about this subject a lot; ... continue

IBM enters the crime prediction business with the Crime Information Warehouse

Well this is kind of interesting. It seems that IBM has developed a crime database called Crime Information Warehouse (CIW) as a service for police to detect crime trends in real time. The idea being that CIW pulls ... continue

Mentally ill homeless man beaten to death by police. FBI called in to investigate.

What's that old saying about absolute power corrupting absolutely? Well in this case it seems that the police in Fullerton, California, took their power to the extreme and beat Kelly Thomas, a homeless man, who suffering from schizophrenia, to ... continue

Next up for the iPhone? Mobile drug testing using your fingerprint

The other night I was chilling and watching some television when a thought came to me about how much longer it would be before we could start using our smartphones for things like checking your diabetes levels. For ... continue

MORIS joins forces with the police and their iPhones to scan your iris and face

Technology is a great thing, I would be first to say that; but as great as it is it can also be misused; regardless of the intentions of those who dream up all these great new ideas. Such ... continue

Alhambra Crash Between Two Police Cars Leaves Officer Dead

Driving a police car to the scene of a crime can be a very dangerous act that can result in car crashes, loss of civilian life and other major disturbances and this past Sunday the rush to ... continue

Using a public power outlet to charge your phone could get you arrested

Battery life for our various gadgets pretty well sucks and keeping an eye out for handy power outlets for a quick juice up is becoming a practiced art but you might want to be careful where you ... continue

It’s a whacked world where returning $17,000 gets you a fine of $500

As good caring members of our society we would always hope that we would do the right, as well as teach our children to do the same, regardless of whatever temptation gets thrown in our direction. Robert Adams, ... continue

Today’s really stupid idea – rifle umbrellas

It doesn't matter how you slice it but this idea of buying an umbrella with a rifle stock as its handle is something only a member of the NRA could love. I mean really, how is it a ... continue

Someone doesn’t like Bed & Bath, 35 pounds worth of not liking

Wow, I've heard of dog poop bomb and even moving of the outhouse on Halloween but someone out there definitely has a hate on for a Bed & Bath store in Radnor Township in Pennsylvania. It seems that ... continue

Kissing Couple in Vancouver Riot ID’d via Facebook

It was like, the dry hump heard around the world. The recent riots in Vancouver spawned many iconic images, but none so destined for dorm room poster status as that of a seemingly unaware couple totally second-basing it ... continue

Not everyone in Vancouver rioted – soon to be famous photograph included

It's not very often that I am totally disgusted by something that happens in my home country of Canada but I have to say that the events in Vancouver following the Stanley Cup final game is definitely ... continue

What Do The Police Actually Get When They Subpoena Your Facebook Account?

We've all heard the stories of people convicted on crimes where the evidence included things like their Google searches or their Facebook posting but in order to get that Facebook information the police first need to subpoena ... continue

The newest high-tech weapon against drunk drivers

Police everywhere are always on the look out for new technology to help them as they combat everything from burglary to murders. For police in Palm Bay however when it comes to battling drunk drivers they are resorting ... continue

[Damn Cool] Matching police sketches to actual mug shots

Eyewitness generated images of suspects in some cases don't come close to the actual perpetrator but sometimes they come pretty close. The problems lies in being able to match up those police sketches with an actual mug ... continue

The Top Internet Scams for 2010

It goes without saying that just as in real life our time spent on the Web will involve dealing with some pretty scummy people who will try to con you out of your information or personal information ... continue

Kiss even more of your privacy good-bye. Thanks California.

Okay, this is just wrong. It is wrong in so many ways but according to a post just spotted over at PhoneArena, and again at Ars Technica, the California Supreme Court has just lost its ever-lovin' mind. In ... continue

Not handing over computer password lands teenager in jail

While Oliver Drage, 19, from Naze Lane in Freckleton, Lancashire was originally arrested for some other alleged offence where the police seized his computer has was sent to jail for four months because he refused to hand ... continue