Police can now track killers using relatives' DNA – but should they?
8 August 2018
Genetic genealogy services are rapidly becoming a key source of forensic evidence, but do we really want the police to have access to everyone's DNA?
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Technology firms must develop new ways to jam Russia's fake news
20 February 2018
The FBI has revealed the lengths Russia's fake news operators will go to – now the likes of Facebook and Twitter must come up with a fix, says Paul Marks
AI uses bitcoin trail to find and help sex-trafficking victims
24 August 2017
Thousands of escorts advertise on websites like Backpage, not always by choice. Machine learning can now identify ads posted by traffickers, and locate them
Dark web crackdown as two biggest markets are taken offline
20 July 2017
The police sting hit two markets, AlphaBay and Hansa, that were responsible for the trading of over 350, 000 illicit goods such as drugs, firearms and cybercrime malware
