Aux Etats-Unis, l’assistant intelligent d’Amazon appelé à témoigner dans une affaire de meurtre, High tech. Cops scan social media to help assess your ‘threat rating’ Tom Cruise in Minority Report.
Courtesy of 20th Century Fox A national spotlight is now focused on aggressive law enforcement tactics and the justice system. Today’s professional police forces — where officers in even one-stoplight towns might have body armor and mine-resistant vehicles — already raise concerns. Yet new data-mining technologies can now provide police with vast amounts of surveillance information and could radically increase police power. Policing can be increasingly targeted at specific people and neighborhoods — with potentially serious inequitable effects. One speaker at a recent national law enforcement conference compared future police work to Minority Report, the Tom Cruise film set in 2054 Washington, where a “PreCrime” unit has been set up to stop murders before they happen.
New World Systems, for example, now offers software that allows dispatchers to enter in a person’s name to see if they’ve had contact with the police before. And no system is foolproof. ICREACH: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google -The Intercept. The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a “Google-like” search engine built to share more than 850 billion records about phone calls, emails, cellphone locations, and internet chats, according to classified documents obtained by The Intercept.
The documents provide the first definitive evidence that the NSA has for years made massive amounts of surveillance data directly accessible to domestic law enforcement agencies. Planning documents for ICREACH, as the search engine is called, cite the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration as key participants. Microsoft to Stop Inspecting Private Emails in Investigations. Tackling Insurance Fraud. Introduction Most insures have invested to some degree in fraud technology in the past five years.
However, most of this investment, while beneficial, has been piecemeal and has tended to be focused on fraud detection at the claims phase. Ovum believes that a number of technologies have evolved to the extent that they now offer insurers a way to address the increasingly serious threat posed by professional fraud networks. Highlights Ovum believes that a number of technologies have evolved to the extent that they now offer insurers a way to address the increasingly serious threat posed by professional fraud networks.
Features and Benefits This report will highlight key technologies, the strengths and drawbacks of these technolgies and how they can be used as part of a comprehensive fraud strategyThis report highlights which technology will be adopted by the global insurance industry as it combats the growing issue of insurance fraud. Tech Companies Concede to Surveillance Program. Revelations Give Look at Spy Agency’s Wider Reach. David Burnett/Contact Press Images At the National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Md.
Disclosures have provided a rare glimpse into the agency’s growing reach. Obama Calls Surveillance Programs Legal and Limited. WASHINGTON — President Obama offered a robust defense of newly revealed surveillance programs on Friday as more classified secrets spilled into public, complicating a summit meeting with China’s new president focused partly on human rights and cybersecurity.
Mr. Obama departed from his script at a health care event in California to try to reassure Americans that he had not abused government authority by collecting telephone call logs and foreigners’ e-mail messages. U.S. Is Secretly Collecting Records of Verizon Calls. WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is secretly carrying out a domestic surveillance program under which it is collecting business communications records involving Americans under a hotly debated section of the , according to a highly classified court order disclosed on Wednesday night.
The order, signed by Judge Roger Vinson of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in April, directs a subsidiary, Verizon Business Network Services, to turn over “on an ongoing daily basis” to the all call logs “between the United States and abroad” or “wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls.” The order does not apply to the content of the communications. Verizon Business Network Services is one of the nation’s largest telecommunications and Internet providers for corporations. Rationalizing Government Collection Authorities: A Proposal for Radical Simplification. The life of every person in an advanced industrialized country is a mosaic of digital information stored on public and private computer servers around the world.
Most of the tiles of your own personal mosaic do not reside in your hands. Le logiciel qui prédit les délits. Après avoir conquis plusieurs villes américaines, "PredPol" débarque au Royaume-Uni.
Le pouvoir de ce programme informatique ? Prévoir où et quand un crime aura lieu. Avec des résultats prometteurs. M le magazine du Monde | • Mis à jour le | Par Louise Couvelaire Santa Cruz, en Californie, août 2012. L'informateur qui leur a transmis le tuyau n'était pas un indic à l'ancienne rencontré discrètement dans une impasse... mais un logiciel d'ordinateur. Pour un peu, on se croirait propulsé dans le film de science-fiction de Steven Spielberg, Minority Report (2002), dans lequel des humains mutants prévoient les crimes à venir grâce à leur don de prescience.
"Nous avons eu plus de 200 demandes, émanant de nombreux pays", assure le professeur Brantingham.