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Police buy software to map suspects' digital movementsRyan Gallagher and Rajeev SyalThe Guardian May. 13, 2011 |
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 Britain's largest police force is using software that can map nearly every move suspects and their associates make in the digital world, prompting an outcry from civil liberties groups. The Metropolitan police has bought Geotime, a security programme used by the US military, which shows an individual's movements and communications with other people on a three-dimensional graphic. It can be used to collate information gathered from social networking sites, satellite navigation equipment, mobile phones, financial transactions and IP network logs. Police have confirmed its purchase and declined to rule out its use in investigating public order disturbances. [...] "Once millions and millions of pieces of microdata are aggregated, you end up with this very high-resolution picture of somebody, and this is effectively what they are doing here. "We shouldn't be tracked and traced and have pictures built by our own government and police for the benefit of commercial gain," he said. Read More |
