#id-enforcement

#id-enforcement

Police have charged five individuals and are searching for two more in a fraud investigation where AI tools were used to target retail locations in the Greater Toronto Area. The suspects employed smart glasses and distraction techniques to steal login information from employees, which was then used to load funds onto gift cards through self-checkout kiosks.

Palantir Technologies, despite earning $1.6 billion in net income last year, did not pay any federal income taxes due to favorable tax policies that allow corporations to dodge taxes.

A search for 'Guo Wei' in ORCID returned 616 profiles, none affiliated with the Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, highlighting the difficulty in verifying academic identities.

The findings of an independent review criticized recent mistaken releases as 'simply one symptom of a broken system.' The review was commissioned after Hadush Kebatu was mistakenly freed from an Essex prison in October 2025.

Mobile Fortify, now used by United States immigration agents in towns and cities across the US, is not designed to reliably identify people in the streets and was deployed without the scrutiny that has historically governed the rollout of technologies that impact people's privacy, according to records reviewed by WIRED. The Department of Homeland Security launched Mobile Fortify in the spring of 2025 to "determine or verify" the identities of individuals stopped or detained by DHS officers during federal operations, records show.