by tacklingviolenceprofessionalshalloffame_zm1bll | Jul 31, 2015 | Blog, Front Page, News, Research
Identity theft has undoubtedly become a key challenge to the general public which is increasing. According to CIFAS, the UK’s fraud prevention agency, identity fraud increased by 31% during the first three months of 2015 and following these figures the City of...
by tacklingviolenceprofessionalshalloffame_zm1bll | Apr 29, 2015 | Blog, Front Page, News
This month Professor Martin Gill appeared on BBC local radio and South Korean radio with Henry Shinn discussing identity theft. South Korea is facing a major identity theft problem, and Martin spoke about our own research with victims and offenders and some of the key...
by tacklingviolenceprofessionalshalloffame_zm1bll | Aug 29, 2014 | Blog
This month a group of researchers based at MIT successfully demonstrated an algorithm that can capture audio information using video content alone. By analysing the tiny vibrations of objects caused by nearby sound waves, the team was able to translate these to...
by tacklingviolenceprofessionalshalloffame_zm1bll | Dec 31, 2013 | Fraud & ID Theft, Publications, Security & Risk
This report is based on a brief review of the response to identity theft in the EU, the Netherlands, France, Germany and the UK. In particular the report focuses on what the current status in law regarding identity theft is in each country, what individual governments...
by Ruth Crocker | Jan 16, 2013 | Blog, News
Four police forces in the West Midlands have joined the Action Fraud scheme. Action Fraud is a service run by the National Fraud Authority whose job it is to co-ordinate the UK’s response to fraud. The purpose of the scheme is to act as a single point of contact...
