Cyber crime
Research Topic
Language: English
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Research problems linked to this topic
- How much of an obstacle is cyber-security in the development of the UK’s digital trade capacity?
- How will the use of generative AI to create ‘deepfakes’ that manipulate people’s likeness (face, body, voice) evolve? What is the psychological impact of being deepfaked, and what harmful uses (e.g. intimate image abuse, fraud, reputational damage) will develop and increase?
- What counter technologies may be used to trick large scale audio-visual data processing and analysis systems used by the police and how can they be mitigated?
- What methods and policies could policing use to identify deepfakes rapidly and automatically, while retaining victim privacy?
- What digital forensic advances can support crypto-currency investigations?
- What is the best-in-class digital tooling available for the forensic analysis of text, media and metadata?
- What technologies can be used to prevent crimes online, including the online mobilisation towards violence and terrorism?
- What cybersecurity threats exist for the use of drones in policing and how can they be mitigated?
- How will AI affect existing kinds of harmful online content (e.g. online abuse, scams) and what new kinds of online harmful content might it give rise to?