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Re:Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police by duxup on Saturday April 13, 2019 @02:08PM (#19654664)
I remembered watching that and thinking that it was apt.... but there's no damn way anyone gets access to all those different systems managed by different groups seamlessly. The bureaucracy involved would be immense, the various systems that can't talk to each other efficiently endless. I imagined all the overhead that would go into that and it hurt my brain ;)
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Re:Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police by joshka on Saturday April 13, 2019 @03:06PM (#19655080)
A fun thought exercise to break the "can't do it" perspective. Imagine someone says they'll give you 10 million dollars to get it done, could you do it then?
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Re:Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police by duxup on Saturday April 13, 2019 @03:22PM (#19655172)
I think the challenge is you don't know where the "runner" you're tracking is going and the variety of surveillance systems they tap into is a pretty big unknown.
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Re:Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police by webreac on Saturday April 13, 2019 @04:27PM (#19655521)
The inefficiency of administration is the last protection of our privacy ?
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Re:Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police by duxup on Saturday April 13, 2019 @04:38PM (#19655567)
I worry what happens when / if that isn't the case anymore.

Just with data we're crossing what seems like a lot of "too late" moments.

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Re:Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police by hopler on Saturday April 13, 2019 @04:10PM (#19655454)
The modern solution is that they give a contractor like Palantir access to all the gov databases, and the contractor builds a unified UI.
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Re:Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police by mirimir on Sunday April 14, 2019 @03:15AM (#19658020)
Well, there's DEA's Special Operations Division (SOD). As I recall, they've done ~real-time busts of drug shipments. That is, from a cellular intercept in California to pulling over a semi on I95 for a broken taillight.
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