mobile crime
RSS mobile crimeVideo Changes the Future of Policing
White Paper Before an event, highly visible video cameras act as a deterrent to crime. During an event, real-time video can be useful to a command center to plan a measured response with mobile units. Public safety... [15 Aug 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Open info for all?
Comment And I'm not talking expense claims and petty crime here but things like national infrastructure and sensitive data. I approached the mobile companies but they would not divulge anything. Obviously,... [20 Jul 2009]
£24m: The cost of tracking your emails and phone calls
News Home Office policing and security minister, David Hanson, told Parliament last week that millions are now being spent to fund ISPs', telcos' and mobile operators' retention of communications data under the European Data... [13 Jul 2009]
Apple bonanza, crime breathalysers and broadband tax
News Meanwhile, the Association of Chief Police Officers revealed that its e-crime group was in discussions to deploy PC crime 'breathalysers' which can detect evidence of illegal activity on PCs. But despite... [02 Jul 2009]
SAFE Overview
White Paper The fast proliferation of botnets, the increasing sophistication of network attacks, the alarming growth of Internet-based organized crime and espionage, identity and data theft, more innovative insider attacks, and... [01 Jul 2009]
Police mobiles cautioned for bad behaviour
News Judson said officers have access to about six police systems from the devices, including the Police National Computer and systems dealing with crime reporting and live incident updates. Despite a £75m government plan to... [12 Jun 2009]
Who's monitoring your email?
News The Home Office statement added that retention of communications data is necessary as a crime-fighting and anti-terrorist tool. This data is a vital tool to investigations and intelligence gathering in support of... [06 Apr 2009]
£250k to help police ID stolen phones
News To tackle the problems presented by NFC, the Home Office has been working with the National Mobile Phone Crime Unit and industry to ensure crime prevention safeguards are built into... [17 Mar 2009]
Police failing to grasp new tech
News The Home Secretary should set a mandatory deadline for the hundreds of computer systems, used by local forces to handle crime reports and intelligence, to be fully integrated by 2015, Jan Berry, independent reducing... [16 Feb 2009]
Extra coppers to clobber copper crooks
News A spokesman for the Home Office said: "The unit is based loosely on the successful National Mobile Phone Crime Unit and will provide expert assistance to Crime and Disorder Reduction... [12 Jan 2009]
2008: The year in mobile
News UK crime fighters grapple with iPhone wipe threat 2008 was a year of change in the mobile sphere - not least for the iPhone which switched from being exclusively a shiny consumer toy to a... [30 Dec 2008]
Is that a police station in your pocket?
News I would say that we are about two or three years away from that - all we need to do is to agree where our priorities are and discover those killer applications," he told silicon.com.silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown... [16 Dec 2008]
£25m for Queen's fight against e-crime
News Queen's University Belfast has landed £25m to set up a new centre to combat online crime. The CSIT will examine problems including how to lock down mobile networks, how the healthcare industry can secure... [21 Nov 2008]
Lords: 'Do we really need £12bn super comms database?'
News This data has been used in 95 per cent of serious crime cases and helps to pin people down," he said. According to West, the proposals will help make sure that police can rely on communication data to convict criminals... [17 Nov 2008]
€100m Pink Panther robbers snared by fingerprints
News The database can be accessed by every one of its 187 member countries, down to the level of the officer on the street, and has prints from 750 crime scenes. M is for Mobile phones Prints taken following... [22 Oct 2008]
