Social Media DNA
Topic

Private sector

How companies and citizens use social media for safety and security.

2 articles

2015

24 May 2015

“I argue for better citizen investigation via Social Media”

“There are major changes in investigation. Citizens mobilise each other and resolve issues through social media. “Do-it-yourself policing” is changing tactical investigation radically.” This is the view of TNO researcher Arnout de Vries. “The police and legal authorities can make far better use…

20 January 2015

Mobile vigilante: Traffic Droid

Foul!” yells Lewis Dediare from his bicycle before brandishing a red card in the face of a dumbfounded delivery driver. The scene is not a football pitch, rather the middle of a London street, where Dediare, alias the “Traffic Droid”, is busy enforcing the law. The 49-year-old is one of dozens…