- By Jason Nurse
Remote working can be a blessing. More time with family, less commuting, and meetings from the comfort of your living room.
The UK is currently witnessing a tug of war over facial recognition. On the streets of London and in South Wales, live systems have been deployed by the police,
- By Ritesh Chugh
Cybercriminals are on the prowl to infect your mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers and access your personal data, or install malware while you charge them.
Amazon Echo and the Alexa voice assistant have had widely publicised issues with privacy.
Ring promises to keep more neighbourhoods safe, but will smart surveillance systems really make you safer?
Whether you do your shopping online or in store, your retail experience is the latest battleground for the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning revolution.
A 2019 surge of gang-related shootings in Toronto motivated the Ontario government to commit $3 million to double the number of Toronto Police surveillance cameras in the city.
- By NBC News
Researchers discovered that Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri and Google Home can be hacked by laser pointers and flashlights.
- By NBC News
We give out our cell phone numbers all the time, but those 10 digits also give companies a ton of information about us and how we live our lives.
Sentencing a person to die is the ultimate punishment. There is no coming back from the permanence of the death penalty.
It is easy for those of us who have ignored emails from Nigerian princes or refused to transfer money on behalf of an online love interest to scroll past stories about scams, thinking it could never be us.
Public attitudes towards punishment have been a key area of research in criminology. Criminologists are interested in the attitudes of the general public towards the punishment of those who have committed crime.
- By Kean Birch
My recent research increasingly focuses on how individuals can and do manipulate, or “game,” contemporary capitalism. It involves what social scientists call reflexivity and physicists call the observer effect.
Individuals and businesses unknowingly expose themselves to security and privacy threats, as experts explain here.
Free speech is in the news. Not least because several leading universities have adopted a “model code” to protect it on campus.
Social media platforms like Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook collect a staggering amount of data points from us, so much data that our social media activity can pretty accurately reveal things from gym habits to the state of our mental well-being.
If you run a business, you’re probably concerned about IT security. Maybe you invest in antivirus software, firewalls and regular system updates.
Mustafa loves good coffee. In his free time, he often browses high-end coffee machines that he cannot currently afford but is saving for.
Every day, often multiple times a day, you are invited to click on links sent to you by brands, politicians, friends and strangers. You download apps on your devices. Maybe you use QR codes...
For many years, the Apple iPhone has been considered one of the most secure smart phones available.
Congress is thinking of lifting a longstanding ban on federal student aid for those serving time in prison.
- By Richard Wilk
Citizens and policymakers around the world are grappling with how to limit companies’ use of data about individuals – and how private various types of information should be.
Reports this week of an Indigenous boy with a disability held naked for days in a Brisbane police cell have once again raised the issue of how best to treat our most vulnerable young offenders, and the impact of their incarceration.