A group of seven Democratic members of Congress has issued a public letter demanding the Justice Department stop issuing grants to fund predictive policing projects, unless the agency “can ensure that ...

In an era marked by technological advancements, the thin line between ensuring public safety and invading individual privacy has become increasingly blurred. Nowhere is this more evident than in the ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In a bid to shift to predictive policing using artificial intelligence, the CCTNS team of the State Crime Records Bureau has ventured into d ...

This article is republished from The Markup. Read the original article, which was copublished with WIRED. Crime predictions generated for the police department in Plainfield, New Jersey, rarely lined ...

Denver police are flying hundreds of drone missions over the city, but with little outrage as seen with Flock.

This is Episode 12 of Real Future, Fusion’s documentary series about technology and society. More episodes available at realfuture.tv. There’s a new kind of software that claims to help law ...

A deep dive from ProPublica reporters who wanted to vet whether an algorithm could really determine the likelihood that someone would commit a crime in the future has produced some worrisome findings.

The consolidation of data in a common data warehouse such as N-DEx is just the first step in improving nationwide investigations. The next steps involve the use of data mining techniques to predict ...