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Police use-of-force policies in the nation’s 20 largest cities fail to meet international human rights standards, according to a new report.
In a 5-to-4 decision that came as a major blow to President Trump, the justices ruled that the administration could not proceed with plans to dismantle Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.
Two days after the Catholic bishop of El Paso, Mark Seitz, knelt with a dozen other priests in a silent prayer for George Floyd holding a “Black Lives Matter” sign, he received a phone call from Pope Francis.
The problem of police brutality against black Americans isn’t caused by “a few bad apples” on police forces, a new paper argues.
The unrest sparked by the death of George Floyd after being pinned to the ground by the knee of a Minneapolis police officer has left parts of U.S. cities looking like a battle zone.
Ring promises to keep more neighbourhoods safe, but will smart surveillance systems really make you safer?
A 2019 surge of gang-related shootings in Toronto motivated the Ontario government to commit $3 million to double the number of Toronto Police surveillance cameras in the city.
Researchers discovered that Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri and Google Home can be hacked by laser pointers and flashlights.
We give out our cell phone numbers all the time, but those 10 digits also give companies a ton of information about us and how we live our lives.
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