Two days after the Catholic bishop of El Paso, Mark Seitz, knelt with a dozen other priests in a silent prayer for George Floyd holding a “Black Lives Matter” sign, he received a phone call from Pope Francis.
The problem of police brutality against black Americans isn’t caused by “a few bad apples” on police forces, a new paper argues.
The killing of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police has sparked a furious response from all sections of American society.
- By Tom Nolan
The unrest sparked by the death of George Floyd after being pinned to the ground by the knee of a Minneapolis police officer has left parts of U.S. cities looking like a battle zone.
- By Aaron Mauro
If you are a front-line worker or working from home, you must also consider how these adaptations will present opportunities for criminals wanting to exploit this crisis.
The biggest threat to an organisation’s cyber-security comes from within, according to a growing body of evidence.
While most of the world is trying to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, it seems hackers are not on lockdown.
- By Alan Greene
National constitutions and international human rights treaties often contain clauses that allow governments to temporarily suspend their obligations in a time of crisis.
- 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.