Satellite tracking for criminals
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Prolific offenders and paedophiles are to be monitored using satellites under three pilot schemes.
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The secretive snow leopard is fitted with a Global Positioning System (GPS) collar to track its movements.
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Printed symbols called SpotCodes can help cellphones with cameras find their way around cyberspace.
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Networks of low-res cameras and sensors could monitor urban environments for diverse data -- traffic flow, pollutants, structural integrity -- online. By the Associated Press.
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Could be spoofing satnav, not just jamming UK gov defence boffins will carry out GPS-jamming trials in Cornwall today and tomorrow.â¦
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As more firms install software to keep tabs on workers, start-ups and heavy hitters alike spy an opportunity in surveillance products.
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Device adds location info to your digital camera's metadata.
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Determining geographic locations based on Internet IP offers localization services and brings together user communities without the need for GPS receivers or complicated configuration switching.
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Tech-savvy voyeurs are cobbling together DIY infra-red scanners for less-than-noble uses. For every offense, however, there is economic opportunity. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog.
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Radio frequency identification technology, which enables objects, pets and people to be tagged and tracked wirelessly, is likely to be ubiquitous in the not-so-distant future. Almost no aspect of life may soon be safe from the prying eyes of corporations and governments.
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Insurance companies are using satellites to identify homes at high risk of fire damage because of their proximity to brush--a development that alarms some state regulators and privacy advocates.
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CAMBRIDGE -- A new friend-spotting software program will debut on the MIT campus today, allowing people to enjoy the social benefits of sharing their location without showing up on Big Brother's radar screen. The iFIND project turns every laptop into something like a precise Global Positioning System unit that can spot users -- down to the room they're sitting in ...
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By KATHERINE SHRADER WASHINGTON - Using a new laptop and a satellite link, FBI agents can find out within two minutes whether the fingerprint from a newly captured suspect overseas matches a terrorist database in Virginia.
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The forensic science of processing and identifying the dead
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Simple, cheap encryption method uses natural thermal noise to foil eavesdroppers.
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The Department of Homeland Security's Project Hostile Intent aims to use behavioral profiling technology to catch bad guys posing as good guys. But getting it to work could be a challenge.
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A breakthrough in computer-assisted mind reading brings us closer to predicting criminality. Should the justice system adapt? Commentary by Jennifer Granick.