Wednesday 13 February 2013

Foresight Future Identities (2013)

The UK's chief scientific adviser, Professor Sir John Beddington, has produced a new report -   Future Identities, which examines how the changes in technology, politics, economics, the environment and demographics will affect the development of society in the UK and how policy makers can best respond.

He concludes:  mobile communications, the internet and social media will combine to have a profound effect on UK society over the next decade as we enter an era of always-on hyper-connectivity.

He sees Cybercrime as a 'Technology driver for change (3.2.4) and introduces the terms 'smishing' and 'vishing' (can you guess?).  In section 4.2.6 he addresses 'crime and criminal justice'.

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