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Terrorists Strike Fast... Interpol has to Move Faster... Ron Noble is on the Case

BY Chuck Salter
Relevancy Score: 72

A profile of far-reaching change with life-and-death consequencesREAD»

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Sharper Image

BY Linda Tischler
Relevancy Score: 70

The FBI is turning to a small Boston software firm for help in transforming surveillance video into high-resolution images -- and then using the pictures to help track terrorists. Call it the ultimate killer app.READ»

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Craigslist Goes to Washington

BY David Zax
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Until it removed its "Adult Services" section two weeks ago, Craigslist might have expected to be on the defensive at tomorrow’s Capitol Hill hearing on sex trafficking. So what can it expect now?READ»

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7 Ways Real-Life Crime Fighting Mirrors "Minority Report"

BY Austin Carr
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From Facebook to facial recognition, the police state imagined in the Tom Cruise flick feels a bit more real every day.READ»

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" The Imagination Was There"

BY Jena McGregor
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Jamie Gorelick, a 9/11 Commission member and partner in the law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, has been sharing the lessons of 9/11 with clients and business groups since the book's release. A former vice chair at Fannie Mae and the deputy attorney general under Janet Reno, Gorelick spoke to Fast Company about imagination, leadership, and the persistence of outdated mind-sets.READ»

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Digital Due Process Coalition (Including Microsoft, Google, and More) Call for Tougher Online Privacy Laws

BY Dan Nosowitz
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A coalition of both tech companies and human rights organizations called Digital Due Process are pushing Congress for a huge update of the 25-year-old privacy laws governing us now.READ»

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WEB-EXCLUSIVE: The Secret History of Interpol

BY By Chuck Salter
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How the 79-year-old international police organization survived a false start, Nazis occupation, a meager budget, and a terrorist attack and became a round-the-clock crime-fighter.READ»

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Microsoft's Global Criminal Compliance Handbook Leaked

BY Addy Dugdale
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Microsoft has acted swiftly after the Web site Cryptome leaked its "Global Criminal Compliance Handbook." The guide does exactly what it says: outlines the surveillance services the software company will perform for law enforcement ...READ»

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matthew browndorf

BY matthew browndorf
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Their trial (New York v. Kozlowski and Swartz, 2002 Cr. 5259, State Supreme Court, New York County) lasted six months, including 12 days of jury deliberation, before ending in a mistrial. A second trial, lasting five months, began ...READ»

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His People Are as Good as Gold

BY Anna Muoio
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How Bill Daddio strives to build the nation's best police department.READ»

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Pay by Finger

BY Fast Company Staff
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This just in from FC's Charles Fishman: Lowes Foods, which operates 108 bright, expansive grocery stores in the southeast U.S., confirmed to the Raleigh News & Observer today that it will soon offer payment using a fingerprint ...READ»

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No BBQ Sauce? Dial 911!

BY Fast Company Staff
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Talk about a crisis in customer service: A Cleveland-area McDonald's stiffs a lady on her BBQ sauce, so she dials 911. And yes, the tiny town of Avon, OH dispatches an officer to settle the trouble. Hmm. It's hard to figure out ...READ»

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How eBay Fights Fraud

BY Scott Kirsner
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In this web-exclusive sidebar, learn how a former federal prosecutor keeps eBay sellers and buyers on the level without being a burden to the thousands and thousands of honest transactions that close every day.READ»

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Yahoo Makes Snooping on Its Customers Affordable for Cyber Cops!

BY Kit Eaton
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Whistle blowing is a delicate thing--halfway between being useful or educational for the public and revealing potentially business-damaging data. Which is why Yahoo's shenanigans following a leak of its pricelist for spying on ...READ»

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First Use of LRAD Sound Canon In U.S. Used on Pittsburgh G20 Protesters

BY Gizmodo Staff
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I guess military tech always finds its way home. Pittsburgh city officials believe their police department's use of a Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) at last week's G20 protests was "the first time the sound cannon had been used ...READ»

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Big Brother, Where Art Thou?

BY Anni Layne Rodgers
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Security executive Jim Miller argues that a national ID card would help the United States combat terrorism, end wasteful government redundancies, and streamline helter-skelter state and national agencies. So where are our personal bar codes and biometric identifiers? Will the United States institute national IDs?READ»

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Video Conviction

BY Lydia Howard
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I’m blasted daily with mega-numbers for the kazillion apps downloaded and new, improved ways to deliver TV to every screen on the planet. But, I want to focus on a niche, Emergency Video. Grab your mobile, close your eyes ...READ»

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Book 'Em, Dano

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 30

Yesterday, I was talking to a colleague about the importance of uniforms at work. "When you wear a uniform, you're in a different mindset," he said. It's true. Whether on the job or at a trade show, wearing a uniform -- even if it's ...READ»

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Hubris v. Excess: Eliot Spitzer and the NYSE Square off Against Richard Grasso

BY Fast Company Staff
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In one of the more interesting earnings reports you'll see, the New York Stock Exchange yesterday said that its net income fell 54% in the second quarter -- with the primary culprit being costs stemming from ongoing litigation with ...READ»

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