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  • Read the Fine Print

    Loss Prevention Magazine

    Read the Fine Print! This story covers recent events surrounding privacy, live monitoring, and live video related to criminal activity.

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  • Social Media Monitoring: How Does It Work?

    Loss Prevention Magazine

    Social Media Monitoring: How Does It Work? An overview of Social Media Monitoring.

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  • Future of LP: Going Beyond the Gut: Fact-Based Research

    Loss Prevention Magazine

    Does the technology perform differently across markets? Across different departments? What measurements will you rely on to assess the technology’s effectiveness?

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  • Bridging the Gap between Cyber Crime and ORC

    Loss Prevention Magazine

    Bridging the Gap between Cyber Crime and ORC
    Cybercrime and organized retail crime (ORC) are words we hear on a daily basis. This publication covers how they related and how they’re differ.

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  • LP Associates of the Future

    Loss Prevention Magazine

    LP Associates of the Future and the LPRC
    The Loss Prevention Research Council (LPRC) Future of LP Working Group looks to the horizon for loss prevention issues that are sure to plague the industry in the near and long-term future. Collaborating with other retailers, as well as relying on the research produced by the LPRC, we as asset protection professionals can make sure we’re taking an objective and scientific approach to dealing with LP issues. This collaboration occurs in monthly…

    LP Associates of the Future and the LPRC
    The Loss Prevention Research Council (LPRC) Future of LP Working Group looks to the horizon for loss prevention issues that are sure to plague the industry in the near and long-term future. Collaborating with other retailers, as well as relying on the research produced by the LPRC, we as asset protection professionals can make sure we’re taking an objective and scientific approach to dealing with LP issues. This collaboration occurs in monthly conference calls and at the LPRC Impact conference, which occurs October 3–5 this year at the University of Florida in Gainesville. One issue discussed in this group is what the LP associate of the future will look like.

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  • EMV: Not the End of Fraud, But a Helpful Tool

    Loss Prevention Magazine

    Future of LP: EMV: Not the End of Fraud, But a Helpful Tool

    Fraud and cyber security have never been more on the forefront of asset protection professionals’ list of things that keep them up at night than they are today. What is the potential impact of EMV?

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  • Analytics: Where Big Data is Taking LP and the Retail Enterprise (Contributor)

    Loss Prevention Magazine

    Custer contributes to a piece authored by Chris Trlica on the continuing evolution of analytics in the LP industry.

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  • Retail Security: Cyber Tech Fuels Cybercrime (Contributor)

    Innovative Retail Technologies

    Meehan contributes to a piece authored by Matt Pillar on the Retail Security and Cybercrime.

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  • What Is Big Data?

    Loss Prevention Magazine

    Future of LP: What Is Big Data?
    Review of Big Data and it's implication. The writing highlights how Big Data is used in a Retail Loss Prevention setting.

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  • Future of LP: Things to Consider

    Loss Prevention Magazine

    A column that will discuss a series of broad topics of things to consider as we face the rapidly changing future of retail loss prevention. With the advancement of technology today, how will business keep up?

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Patents

  • EAS Security System Incorporating Time of Flight Sensing

    Issued CPC 3.12F-004; U.S. Application No. 17/876,018

    EAS security system incorporating time of flight sensing TOF.

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  • Wallet alarm (FlatGuard <TM>) US20180374323A1

    US US20180374323A1 (Publication of US10573140B2)

    Abstract
    A security device for use with an item of merchandise may include a rigid housing adapted for insertion into a pocket of the item, an alarm disposed within the housing, and a sensor mounted to the housing. The sensor may be configured to indicate whether the security device is outside the pocket of the item, whereby an indication that the security device is outside the pocket of the item causes the alarm to generate a human-perceptible alert.

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