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Arthur T Knackerbracket has processed the following story:
The New South Wales Crime Commission commenced Project Hakea to investigate the use of tracking and other surveillance devices as an enabler of serious and organized crime in the southeastern Australian state.
The study looked at 5,163 trackers, purchased by 3,147 customers in 4,176 transactions. Using an extensive data matching process, it was discovered that 37% of customers were known to NSW police for criminal behavior. Moreover, 25% of customers had a recorded history of domestic and family violence, 15% were known for involvement in serious and organized crime activity, and 6% had a different criminal background.
It was also found that 126 customers were Apprehended Violence Order (AVO) defendants at the time they purchased a tracking device. An AVO is a court order issued to protect an individual who has a reasonable fear of violence or harassment from a specified person. Some customers bought the trackers days after the AVO was enforced.
The findings state that tracking and other surveillance devices are increasingly used to facilitate organized crime, including murder, kidnapping, and drug trafficking.
[...] The study recommends a change in the law to restrict the sale of tracking devices.
In May, Apple and Google announced that their previously confirmed industry specification for Bluetooth tracking devices was being rolled out to iOS and Android platforms, which should help prevent stalking by alerting users of suspicious Bluetooth trackers.
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday July 02 2024, @06:34PM (3 children)
All we need are a few more laws that incorporate "with a computer" into the text. That will scare those criminals away from high tech gadgets!
Ooooh! That's an even better solution! Since criminals like these things, we'll just make sure no one can buy one! How stoopid can they get? Criminals are criminals - they're going to gain access to whatever they want, even if they have to steal a big truck, break into a warehouse, and haul the stuff off. That's the state of gun laws in much of the world. "Because bad guys misuse guns, no one can have guns."
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz
(Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday July 02 2024, @06:47PM (2 children)
>Since criminals like these things, we'll just make sure no one can buy one!
If I were in law enforcement, I would be actively marketing tracking devices like these - backdoored with a stack of pre-signed probable cause warrants ready to dragnet in all the "sooper smaht gangsta types" that buy the devices.
Really, in the old days wiretaps were barely needed to catch organized criminals, at least the lower level ones, because most of them were so full of pride they couldn't stop yammering on to anyone who would listen about all the tough guy shit they did.
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(Score: 4, Touché) by Thexalon on Wednesday July 03 2024, @02:10AM (1 child)
As opposed to now, where organized criminals yammer on to anyone who would listen into a microphone, in front of a large audience and a bunch of TV cameras. And still the cops don't seem to notice.
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday July 03 2024, @11:53AM
There's no fixin' Stoopid.
We can just hope that truly deeply Stoopid remains a minority.
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