Alaska adopts crime data mining

Published: 24 October 2003 y., Friday
Seven agencies, including the Alaska Department of Safety and the Juneau and Anchorage police departments, participate in the Alaska Law Enforcement Information Sharing System (ALEISS). The organization will get federal funding for the first phase of the Coplink initiative. The state, along with the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center — Northwest — part of the Justice Department's National Institute of Justice and based in Anchorage — will administer the funds. As part of the effort, agencies will establish privacy, security and responsibility protocols for using the system. Coplink, created in 1998 at the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Arizona at Tucson, can churn through vast quantities of unstructured information from various databases — such as sex offender, gang-related, mug shots, records management system, court citations, tax records, and even pawn broker records — to detect trends. Users can search for leads by entering an individual's physical characteristics or name, an automobile description and other information. Algorithms can provide links between data and spit out probable leads for investigators to look into further. The system, developed and marketed by Knowledge Computing Corporation, operates through a secure intranet and can assign different levels of access to users, based on the sensitivity of the information. It creates a detailed audit trail for every search. ALEISS employees will be subject to background screenings — including fingerprint checks of state and federal criminal history repositories — before getting access to the system An employee with any type of felony conviction will be denied access to Coplink.
Šaltinis: fcw.com
Copying, publishing, announcing any information from the News.lt portal without written permission of News.lt editorial office is prohibited.

Facebook Comments

New comment


Captcha

Associated articles

Wincor Nixdorf opens ATM, POS system distribution center in Singapore

Wincor Nixdorf AG has opened a global distribution center in Singapore to support its growing operations in Asia Pacific. more »

Online gambling – MEPs to debate rules to combat fraud, addiction

Over 3 million people in Europe bet online on sports like football, cricket and horse racing. more »

Wincor bankers' symposium: Building customer loyalty in a tough economy

Executives from Wincor Nixdorf Inc. (USA) hosted a bankers' forum last month, highlighting emerging trends in a challenging U.S. economic environment. more »

Push for mandatory reverse ATM PIN adoption rears its head, again

The appeal for a reverse ATM code has again popped up in mainstream press, this time in Illinois, where the (Peoria, Ill.) Journal Star last week reported about a technology that has been discussed in the industry for several years, yet fails to take off. more »

CeBIT previews future tech wonders

At the CeBIT fair grounds in Hanover, Germany, you move into a different realm. One with robots - lots of bots. more »

ATMIA, ATM Marketplace honor ATM companies for outstanding service

During the 10th annual ATM Industry Association conference last month, ATMIA and ATM Marketplace recognized four leading ATM players for their individual or combined contributions to the ATM Industry. more »

Schwarzenegger „pumps up“ CeBIT

The show held annually in the northern German city of Hannover usually invites a foreign nation to become an official partner, but in a historic move that distinction was granted to the State of California this year. more »

ATM Future Trends 2009 provides insight from 20 key industry executives, 1,600 survey respondents

After a six-month research project that involved the surveying of some 1,600 ATM and financial executives from throughout the world, ATM Marketplace and the ATM Industry Association have announced plans to release the findings of their research next month. more »

Tech CU launches GPS-based ATM locator

Technology Credit Union has teamed with LocatorSearch to introduce a global positioning system (GPS) download to help members find surcharge-free ATMs. more »

Video game safety: less legislation, more information

It's easy to demonise violent video games, but a report making its way through parliament says that "video games can have beneficial effects upon young people." more »