A civilian employee of the Calgary Police Service is facing charges after allegedly using internal police databases to look up people for non-police matters. It is believed the employee was accessing ...

Police officers across the country misuse confidential law enforcement databases to get information on romantic partners, business associates, neighbors, journalists and others for reasons that have ...

The former sergeant is facing one charge of breach of trust and one charge of unauthorized use of a computer A former Canadian police sergeant has pleaded guilty to using law enforcement databases to ...

A decorated Canadian police sergeant with more than two decades of experience on the force pleaded guilty to using the law enforcement database to pursue intimate relationships with around 30 women, ...

BEDOYA: So some of them are put into a police database. Others remain in the DMV database, but the police can either directly run searches or request them. There are no audits. There's little ...

Across the nation, law enforcement agencies are using facial recognition networks containing the photographs of about half of American adults, posing potential privacy and civil liberty violations, ...

Ottawa's police chief reveals officers misused law enforcement databases to pursue women, sparking a crisis of trust.

Gang graffiti in Los Angeles. A recent study of the California Gang Database by the authors of this commentary found 103,840 entries by 222 law enforcement agencies, which translated to about ...

Human rights group Liberty has said the UK government’s proposed Crime and Policing Bill will transform the country’s driving licence database into a de-facto facial recognition database, enabling ...