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Re:“Reverse location” search warrants identify all cellphone... by nabla9 on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @02:13PM (#19201845)
In big investigations hundreds of people are suspects. There is nothing wrong with that.

There is nothing wrong with a police being able to collect information of people who were in the scene.

The real issue is what happens to data and how you get it.

1. Police should need to use subpoena to get the data.

2. Police should not be allowed to use the data for any other thing than solving that particular crime.

These kinds of issues should be separated from mass surveillance. The ability to just go there and explore data of citizens or persons who they are interested in but don't suspect from crimes. That's what intelligence agencies do.

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Re:“Reverse location” search warrants identify all cellphone... by michaelmrose on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @02:37PM (#19202023)
The "scene" could in fact be an arbitrarily large space and time due to uncertainties and complexities of the particular issue at hand.
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