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The FBI used an incinerator in the same building as an animal shelter to dispose of seized meth — and without telling their neighbors first.
Future Society

FBI Carelessly Incinerates Large Amount of Meth, Sending Workers to Hospital

By Frank Landymore

ICE Agents Accidentally Add Random Person to Group Chat, Uncover Highly Sensitive Data
Future Society

ICE Agents Accidentally Add Random Person to Group Chat, Uncover Highly Sensitive Data

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Cops in New Mexico used an AI-generated image of fake teenage girl to attract pedophiles, a lawsuit filed by the state shows.
Artificial Intelligence

Cops Use AI-Generated 14-Year-Old Girl to Lure Sex Criminals

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

What if an AI trained on the entire legal code began enforcing it? One AI researcher is ringing alarm bells about that very prospect.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Might Actually Enforce All Our Stupid Laws, Expert Warns

By Noor Al-Sibai

Brandon Cavanaugh, a 37-year-old former NASA intern and Boeing aerospace engineer, was sentenced for storming the capitol.
Future Society

Former NASA Intern Sentenced for Storming the US Capitol on Jan 6

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A pregnant Texas driver is fighting a traffic ticket after police said her unborn child doesn't count as a passenger in HOV lanes.
Future Society

Pregnant Woman Fights Traffic Ticket, Claiming Unborn Fetus Count as Passenger After Roe Reversal

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Police in Israel may soon have autonomous drones that fly to locations where gunshots are detected, but Denver police can't prove the tech even works.
Drones

New Tech Will Send Police Drones to Sites Where Guns Went Off

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A U.S. police force has tested the capabilities of a robot dog for the first time, but it's keeping mum on the exact details of the bot's use.
Boston Dynamics

It’s Official: Police Are Testing Out Boston Dynamics’ Robot Dog

By Kristin Houser

A man removed a GPS tracker he found on his car, but because it belonged to police, they were able to search his house for the "stolen" device.
Future Society

Cops Charge Man With Theft For “Stealing” Their Secret GPS Tracker

By Kristin Houser

Inaccurate police breathalyzers are putting innocent drivers behind bars and guilty ones back on the road, according to a new investigation.
Robots and Machines

Investigation Finds Breathalyzers Are Regularly Inaccurate

By Kristin Houser

Using a camera-equipped drone, police were able to track down a fugitive living in a tiny cave after escaping from a prison camp 17 years ago.
Drones

Police Drone Catches Fugitive Living in Remote Cave

By Kristin Houser

Most Americans Trust Cops With Facial Recognition Tech
Facial recognition

Most Americans Trust Cops With Facial Recognition Tech

By Kristin Houser

A startup developing a marijuana breathalyzer just secured funding through Y Combinator, one of the world's top accelerators.
Robots and Machines

This Startup Created a Marijuana Breathalyzer

By Kristin Houser

A Chinese city has deployed police robots to help human officers deal with traffic problems, marking another way the nation is using tech to maintain order.
Artificial Intelligence

China Deploys Its First Robot Traffic Police

By Kristin Houser

The biggest supplier of police body cameras and software called Axon just called it quits on using AI-powered facial recognition systems for its devices.
Facial recognition

Police Body Camera Maker Decides Against Using Facial Recognition

By Victor Tangermann

Police in the UK must defend their use of facial recognition tech in court for the first time, and the court's ruling could set a powerful precedent.
Artificial Intelligence

Man Takes Police to Court for Scanning His Face Without Consent

By Kristin Houser