NIST Tracks Software for Investigations

Broader than just software related aspects it seems,  digital files in any criminal  investigation,  will this lead to privacy objections? 

NIST Update to Software Reference Library Will Aid Criminal Investigations  

NIST, June 27, 2022

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) updated its National Software Reference Library (NSRL) to make it easier to search through data on electronic equipment seized in police raids during criminal investigations. In the database's first major update in 20 years, the number and type of records in the database were broadened to reflect the growing diversity of digital files that law enforcement might find on a device. NIST also has revised the records' format to make the NSRL more searchable. The SQLite format makes it easier for users to create tailored filters to screen files for desired content. Said NIST's Doug White, “The update should make it easier for police to separate the wheat from the chaff." 

AI Cleaning up Ocean Criminal Activity

More detailed sensors and resulting patterns.

 How AI is Cleaning Up the High Seas     By ZDNet, April 1, 2022

One company used risk models to detect criminal activity via markers like anomalous loitering; the results helped European authorities intercept a ship with hundreds of millions of dollars of illicit drugs on board.

On August 8th, 2021, Spanish police and customs agents intercepted the cargo ship NATALIA on suspicion of narcotics trafficking. The ship was en route from Lebanon via Iskenderun, Turkey, to Lagos, Nigeria, and hidden on board was nearly 20 tons of hashish worth $470 million.

That may sound like the opening scene of an action flick, but it's the kind of occurrence that happens more frequently than you might expect on the high seas. Drug smuggling, illegal fishing, and piracy are constant threats. Following a number of recent piracy incidents in the Gulf of Aden, Iran, Russia, and China recently began naval and air drills seeking to counter maritime piracy. The problem is that these crimes are very difficult to track and police.

How can nations effectively monitor their seas to make countering piracy and other maritime-based criminal activity more efficient?

Maybe it's because I live on a sailboat with my family, but I'm fascinated by the evolving efforts to monitor our oceans in an increasingly complex law enforcement paradigm. Artificial intelligence, not surprisingly, is a tool used increasingly frequently for the challenging job of keeping the seas (and global commerce) secure.

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Autonomous Vehicles as Criminal Drug Mules

I recall this coming up in innovation meetings a number of years ago.  And of course the vehicles involved will be automatically tracked and usage charged to someone-thing that can be recorded.  But expect that to be cleansed as needed.  Be wary.  Very good and detailed discussion below.   Expect any and all approaches to emerge: 

AI Autonomous Cars As Drug Mules For Narco Dealers Is A Bad Prescription

Lance Eliot Writes:

" .... I was asked by some readers whether we might ultimately have Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) that will be employed for criminal trafficking acts, doing so by removing the human element involved in driving or otherwise guiding a craft that contains an illicit drug shipment.

Sadly, yes, this can be expected and to some degree is already underway, including the nefarious use of autonomous submersibles, autonomous water surface craft such as sailboats and motorized ships, autonomous drones that fly in the air, and of course the use of ground-based autonomous transportation such as self-driving cars.

Not only will a particular mode of AV be used, such as in the air, in the water, or on the ground, you can bet your bottom dollar that there will be devious efforts combining those avenues, a trifecta as it were.   ... "