Theme: Digital threats in Cyber life
Games of ‘cops and robbers’ are continuing into the digital era. Technology brings clever ways of detecting and preventing crime, with monitoring public places, obtaining digital evidence or pinpointing locations of mobile phones. However, the same technology is also used for sophisticated crimes – organising gang movements, co-ordinating attacks, not to mention digital thefts. Tools of social networking have been at the heart of the Arab Spring, but also aided criminal riots in London. Surveillance cameras capture perpetrators of offences but they also infringe on our liberties. Lawful interception is crucial to state security, but phone tapping of victims in order to sell newspapers is abhorrent to us all. Our industry has to be prepared to cope with both angles of cyber life, navigating carefully between right and wrong, risks and benefits…
Issue: Global 2012 Article no.: 12 Topic: Is it possible to be secure in…