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Re:Police can get your data – even if you aren’t suspected o... by heavyset_go on Sunday August 01, 2021 @07:13PM (#28031152)
These days law enforcement agencies partner up with firms like Clearview[1] that mine data on individuals from the internet and build digital dossiers on them.

A story about someone getting their mined information from Clearview made the front page of HN[2] last year.

It is entirely possible that such firms are running sentiment analysis on social media posts, or analyzing likes and shares, to profile suspects as "anti-police" or not.

[1] https://clearview.ai/law-enforcement

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22681207

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Re:Police can get your data – even if you aren’t suspected o... by rhizome on Monday August 02, 2021 @04:02PM (#28041886)
>These days law enforcement agencies partner up with firms like Clearview

Yes, I addressed that with my investigations link. Investigatory data, problematic or no, does not appear in cop car computers.

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