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Today's technology advances what passport control has been doing for more than a century. ullstein bild via Getty Images In all three cases, the authorities had the wrong people. In all three, it was ...

A little history and a little law are needed in the wake of the current uproar over the re-discovery that the National Security Agency has been vacuuming up telephone records of Americans and e-mails, ...

In 1911, a self-promoting private detective named William Burns made national headlines. He had broken open a major political corruption case, using a powerful new technology: an electronic bug. A ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama defended his administration's security policies on Friday after reports revealing the sweeping nature of surveillance of Americans' phone and Internet ...

Most people captured by license plate readers will never commit a crime. Yet they store our data and remain searchable to police agencies in other states. There is long history of surveillance used ...

Mohammed Rafi Arefin receives funding from the Urban Studies Foundation, the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada. Carolyn Prouse ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) In all three cases, the authorities had the wrong people. In all three, it was face ...

American Amara Majeed was accused of terrorism by the Sri Lankan police in 2019. Robert Williams was arrested outside his house in Detroit and detained in jail for 18 hours for allegedly stealing ...