In North American English, a law enforcement agency (LEA) is a government agency responsible for the enforcement of the laws. Outside North America, such organizations are called police services. In North America, some of these services are called police while others have other names (e.g. sheriff's department; investigative police services in the USA are often called bureaus).
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The SolarWinds hack proves US cyber defenses are a mess — here's how to fix them
The SolarWinds hack was more than just one of the most devastating cyberattacks in history. It was a major breach of national ...
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How breaking down a medicine to its atomic parts can help fight counterfeits
The trafficking of counterfeit and illegal medicines is a growing global challenge, with many criminal organizations involved ...
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Uber vs Los Angeles: The fight for passenger privacy
This article was originally published by Christopher Carey on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and ...
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Data-informed predictive policing was heralded as less biased. Is it?
When George Floyd was killed in May after a police officer pressed a knee into the man’s neck, millions of Americans ...
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Troubled facial recognition startup Clearview AI pulls out of Canada — before it was pushed
Dystopian surveillance firm Clearview AI has stopped offering its facial recognition service in Canada, the government's ...
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Democrats and civil liberties groups back law banning facial recognition across the US
New legislation that would ban police use of facial recognition software across the US has been backed by civil liberties ...
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Clearview AI can be fun — if you’re dirty, stinking rich
Clearview AI has somehow reached another frontier in dystopian facial recognition. The software has been used as a plaything ...
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Leak shows EU police aim to create an international facial recognition database
EU police forces plan to build a network of national police facial recognition database that spans across every member state ...
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Clearview AI's false claims of accuracy increase the dangers of its face recognition software
Clearview AI's calamitous press campaign had another mishap yesterday when the ACLU slammed its claims of being rated "100% ...
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The next big privacy scare is a face recognition tool you've never heard of
The NYT published an eye-opening piece detailing a relatively unknown firm offering facial recognition services to roughly ...
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Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken sees 49% yearly increase in law enforcement information requests
It should come as no surprise that law enforcers are working to track down cryptocurrency criminals. Kraken says information ...
