GPS/Location Awareness

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Mobile Phone Applications to Fight Crime & Disorder

December 3, 2009 Increasingly, police agencies are using social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook to connect with the public on a wide variety of issues.  Now several agencies are releasing their own iPhone applications as a means of combating crime and fighting community disorder.  The most recent and notable example of this has [...]

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We *could* find your stolen Kindle, satellite radio and iPod…but we won’t!

Gadget Makers Can Find Thief, but Don’t Ask Librado Romero/The New York Times Samuel Borgese, who recently lost his Kindle, says Amazon needs another registration step for secondhand Kindles. By David Seagal Published: September 6, 2009 For decades, when an item was lost or stolen, a consumer went through three stages of grief: anger, mourning [...]

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Met Police Officers to be RFID ‘microchipped’ by Top Brass in Big Brother Style Tracking Scheme

While there may be an officer-safety advantage of RFID-tagging human police officers, there certainly may be some unconsidered downsides as well.  First the positive.  Knowing the location of every officer may allow for the more effective delivery of police services.  Dispatchers could send the closest officer to any particular incident.  Should an officer become hurt, [...]

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