With the right computer models and data sets, data miners and the numerati can determine a US citizen’s real name with just three pieces of seemingly unrelated information. According to a Carnegie Mellon study, as many as 87 percent of US citizens can be identified by name, even if the only three things they disclose […]
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Sprint cellphone commercials illustrate how powerful data mining is to government and business. A lesson on data mining is probably not what Sprint had in mind when they produced these commercials. However, Sprint’s recent tv ads for their cell phone network are a creative illustration of just how much personal information people unknowingly give away […]
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Video recording devices are virtually everywhere now, recording and catching everything from embarrassing indiscretions to violent crimes. These videos make great evidence in criminal hearings and are routinely posted to YouTube for all to see. This TruTV clip shows how one violent criminal was caught on video attacking a blind woman on a Seattle bus […]
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The Detroit News is reporting that local police departments are making millions of dollars in revenue from the wrongful seizure of property. According to the article, the police seize the personal property suspected in crimes, but very often no charges were filed and sometimes the police even admit that no crime was ever committed. The […]
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Another first for the Facebook social network: A Facebook status update posted on a person’s profile has been used as an alibi to effectively clear a teen of a crime. Facebook status updated have broken up marriages, gotten employees fired, caused people to be arrested and convicted of crimes and now a man has had […]
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