Criminal gang used 'sim swapping' technique to hijack phone numbers of famous online influencers, sport stars, and musicians
Police database falls down some stairs. British coppers accidentally delete data on 150,000 people from the Police National Computer
Racial bias and facial recognition. Black man in New Jersey arrested by police and spends ten days in jail after…
Head of security at Apple charged with bribery, over allegations of donation of 200 iPads in return for four concealed-weapon…
British comms regulator issues provisional statement of objections to Motorola Solutions UK and Sepura over police contract
Worldwide police operation against dark web vendors results in 179 arrests, seizure of 500kg of drugs, $6.5m (£5m) in cash…
Unbelievable! Driver in Canada charged with dangerous driving, after he slept in fully reclined seat as his Tesla car drove…
Milestone ruling. The UK Court of Appeal rules use of automatic facial recognition (AFR) tech by South Wales Police is…
Current laws give security services 'excessive' access to citizens' data, finds top court, giving government until end of 2021 to…
Zwickau public prosecutor confiscates server used to distribute hundreds of gigabytes of data hacked from police forces across the US
Organised crime around Europe has been dealt a huge blow after authorities cracked the encryption of a messaging system used…
Activist hackers release 24 years' worth of data from hundreds of police forces in move timed to coincide with protests…
Software giant follows IBM and Amazon with police facial recognition ban until there is national regulation of the technology
E-commerce giant Amazon joins other tech firms with announcement it will pause police use of its facial recognition software
Milan court accuses Uber of using recruitment services that paid migrants as little as 3 euros per delivery to work…
Privacy compromise. American company that has a database of more than three billion photographs of people has been hacked
The United Kingdom's most senior police officer Cressida Dick has strongly defended the use of facial recognition by police forces
Criminal gangs are planting “sleepers” in cleaning firms so they can access corporate IT systems, British police have warned
Arrests in Netherlands and Northern Ireland as FBI seizes WeLeakInfo.com, which offered index of 10,000 data breaches for as little…
European Commission could temporarily bar facial recognition in public places as new rules to protect individuals' privacy are worked out
US government agency confirms it will investigate crash last week that saw a Tesla on autopilot rear end a stationary…
Tesla Model 3 in autopilot self-driving mode crashes into stationary police car in the US, as driver was occupied checking…
Criticism from civil liberties groups and tech firms halts Interpol's plan to condemn spread of encryption
Smartphone app can “remotely identify airborne drones” as well as pinpointing the location of its pilot
Police acknowledge working with private King's Cross developer on face recognition scheme, amidst ongoing concern about the use of the…
Suspended jail sentences for 'misguided' parents of TalkTalk hacker Elliott Gunton
Police sell off cryptocurrency seized from TalkTalk hacker Elliott Gunton, in a case that is the first of its kind…
Inside job. Suspicion grows that drone operators who shut down Gatwick airport had inside knowledge
Lawmakers in California have banned the use of facial-recognition software in police body cams
High Court says South Wales police use of facial recognition cameras was lawful, after shopper complaint