Re:New York City Police Amassing a Trove of Cellphone Logs
by driverdan on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @09:59AM
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> Police officials declined to say how many phone records are contained in the database, or how often they might have led to arrests.
> Police officials would not say if detectives had used the call records of any cellphone theft victims in the course of investigating other crimes.
Why can police refuse to answer these questions? This information should be publicly available by default. There is absolutely no risk to any criminal investigations by releasing this info.
This is one of my biggest problems with government agencies. Laws should require them to be open and transparent by default. They should have to take additional steps to make something not available to the public and should have to justify this action.
> Police officials would not say if detectives had used the call records of any cellphone theft victims in the course of investigating other crimes.
Why can police refuse to answer these questions? This information should be publicly available by default. There is absolutely no risk to any criminal investigations by releasing this info.
This is one of my biggest problems with government agencies. Laws should require them to be open and transparent by default. They should have to take additional steps to make something not available to the public and should have to justify this action.