News tagged with law enforcement

Scientists invent long-lasting, near infrared-emitting material

Materials that emit visible light after being exposed to sunlight are commonplace and can be found in everything from emergency signage to glow-in-the-dark stickers. But until now, scientists have had little ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 20, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (26) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Research team finds disk encryption foils law enforcement efforts

(PhysOrg.com) -- A joint U.S./UK research team has found that common encryption techniques are so good that law enforcement, from local to highly resourceful federal agencies, are unable to get at data on ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (23) | comments 30 | with audio podcast report

Nevada approves regulations for self-driving cars

Nevada is becoming the first state to regulate self-driving vehicles on its roadways.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 3

New Zealand smashes global child pornography ring

A global network that used social networking sites such as Facebook to distribute child pornography has been smashed after a tip-off from New Zealand authorities, officials said Tuesday.

Technology / Internet

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (16) | comments 0

iPhone makes great snitch for savvy cops

Got an iPhone in your pocket? Then you might be storing even more personal information than you realize. And some of it could be used against you if you're ever charged with a crime.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 01, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 9

'Anonymous' hackers target US security think tank

Hackers with the loose-knit movement "Anonymous" claimed on Sunday to have stolen a raft of emails and credit card data from U.S.-based security think tank Stratfor, promising it was just the start of a weeklong, ...

Technology / Internet

created Dec 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 96

Hackers intercept FBI, Scotland Yard call (Update)

(AP) -- Trading jokes and swapping leads, investigators from the FBI and Scotland Yard spent the conference call strategizing about how to bring down the hacking collective known as Anonymous, responsible ...

Technology / Internet

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 81

Reading terrorists minds about imminent attack: P300 brain waves correlated to guilty knowledge

Imagine technology that allows you to get inside the mind of a terrorist to know how, when and where the next attack will occur.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 30, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (15) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Feds to stop prosecuting medical marijuana users (Update)

(AP) -- Pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers should not be targeted for federal prosecution in states that allow medical marijuana, prosecutors were told Monday in a new policy memo issued by ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 2

Prohibition of cannabis counter-productive

Prohibition of cannabis in the United States may be counter-productive, with a new study showing that a period of increased law enforcement against the drug coincided with an increase in the number of young adult cannabis ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 08, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 22

Computer Scientists Help Police Apprehend Internet Child Pornographers

Thanks to powerful new software developed by University of Massachusetts Amherst computer scientists Brian Levine and Marc Liberatore, state law enforcement officers across the country including the Massachusetts State Police ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Security experts warn of new 'almost indestructible' TDL-4 botnet threat

(PhysOrg.com) -- Security experts Sergey Golovanov and Igor Soumenkov of Kaspersky Lab have detailed the threats of a new strain of the TDSS botnet, dubbed TDL-4, on SECURELIST, calling it likely the most sophisticated botnet ...

Technology / Internet

created Jul 01, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 17 | with audio podcast report

Threats of int'l BlackBerry bans echo US debate

(AP) -- Threats by the governments of India, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia to shut down BlackBerry's corporate e-mail services reflect unease about a technology that the U.S. government also took ...

Technology / Telecom

created Aug 16, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 4

Your smartphone knows everything about you, and it tells tales

In the sexy but increasingly scary world of smartphone forensics, insiders have a name for all the personal information purposely or unknowingly stored inside that iPhone or Android or Blackberry in your pocket. They call ...

Technology / Other

created May 01, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Researcher finds power and corruption may be good for society

They are familiar scenes: politicians bemoaning the death of family values only for extramarital affairs to be unveiled or politicians preaching financial sacrifice while their expense accounts fatten up.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 14, 2010 | popularity 2.2 / 5 (14) | comments 11

Law enforcement agency

In North American English, a Law enforcement agency (LEA) is an organisation that enforces the law.

Outside North America, such organisations are called police services. In North America, some of these services are called police, others have other names (e.g. sherriff's department; investigative police services in the USA are often called bureaus (e.g. FBI, ICE, ATF, DEA, USSS, SBI, etc.).)

For more information about Law enforcement agency, read the full article at Wikipedia.
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