Technology
Police mass face recognition in the US will net innocent people
A law enforcement database of 117 million faces - half of all US citizens – hasn’t been properly vetted and is likely biased against black people, says Hal Hodson
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Humans
Politicians may push up violent crime by getting tough on it
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Humans
Men are more violent when there are more women around
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Humans
Kuwait lawyers fight world’s first mandatory DNA sampling law
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Environment
China’s fancy for ‘aquatic cocaine’ could wipe out rare porpoise
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Environment
How forensic science can stop slaughter of endangered wildlife
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Humans
Kuwait’s mass DNA database is a huge attack on genetic privacy
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Humans
Reform damaging prisons, or risk losing the fight against crime
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Health
Hackers stealing and selling your health records must be stopped
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Technology
Australian AI spots dodgy deals that look like money laundering
AUSTRAC, Australia's financial intelligence agency, is training a machine learning system to sift millions of transactions for criminal activity
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Humans
Spatter from blood-soaked sponges could aid gun forensics
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Technology
Could sex robots and virtual reality treat paedophilia?
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Technology
US police use machine learning to curb their own violence
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Humans
First step to reducing hate crimes? Enshrine equality in law
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