In San Francisco , one Twitter account is watching over your bikes. Officer Matt Friedman of the San Francisco Police Department is behind the Anti-Bike Theft Unit , a program that utilizes Twitter and GPS trackers to thwart bike thefts in the city. The main tools in Friedman’s utility […] .
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Wi-fi hotspots: Europol warn over data theft
Sensitive information should not be sent over public wi-fi hotspots, to avoid hackers stealing it, Europe’s top cybercrime police officer has warned. Troels Oerting, head of Europol’s cybercrime centre, told the BBC the warning was motivated by the growing number of attacks being carried out via public wi-fi. He […] .
The Los Angeles Police Department Predicts and Fights Crime With Big Data
When the movie Minority Report was released in 2002, the predicting and consequently preventing of crime was still science fiction. It was far away and criminals-to-be had not to fear about predictive analytics being used by the police. Fast-forward to 2014 and things have changed. Although we are still […] .