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"Spokesperson Neera Ritcey said in an email Monday that after a thorough investigation, police determined there were no grounds to lay a charge of unauthorized use of a computer against the teen."
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http://dilbert.com/strip/2018-05-09
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Halifax Police Won't Charge Teen Arrested in Nova Scotia Privacy Fiasco
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(Score: 2) by Kawumpa on Thursday May 10 2018, @09:45AM (5 children)
Officials seeing sense must be the innovation of the year. It's refreshing to see that there are specimen (and speciwomen of course) out there who aren't above using their brains while on the job. Thanks for that. :-)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 10 2018, @10:14AM (1 child)
Well, it's Canada - this kind of "well, duh" conclusions are slightly more likely to happen in Canada or Europe than in the US.
BTW, congratulations on comment #677777 :)
(Score: 2) by Kawumpa on Friday May 11 2018, @03:28PM
Achievement of the week for me.... :)
(Score: 5, Insightful) by BsAtHome on Thursday May 10 2018, @10:20AM (2 children)
Actually, they have no sense of proportion at all. It has been a fiasco from the start.
The fact that someone accesses publicly accessible data should ring all bells out loud that no crime has been committed. They knew from the start that the content deliverer was at fault by making all data available to the public. If you blame the person accessing your publicly available data, then it is like telling the public: Hear hear, I'm shouting out loud, but if you listen to what I am saying, then you will be prosecuted for listening to private information!
Bottom line: the authorities are the dumb fucks here with no sense of proportion. Both those who shouted the information out in the open and those who started blaming the one listening to the noise and those who had to "thoroughly investigate" an non-issue.
(Score: 4, Informative) by canopic jug on Thursday May 10 2018, @01:28PM (1 child)
Apparently it is now recognized that the administrators intentionally mislead the police [halifaxexaminer.ca]. However, the chances of any of them getting charged with filing a false report are still slim because the police made a lot of errors initially as well. The only one involved who didn't screw up was the kid.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 12 2018, @05:39PM
My favorite passage so far:
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