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[privacy] Surveillance Technology Helps Catch Serial Killer
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 20:16:55 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Very interesting story. I think it is great that the suspect was caught, but anyone concerned about Big Brother has to find the issue of so much surveillance a little disconcerting. Via InformationWeek. [snip] Old-fashioned detective work would have solved a murder that led to the arrest of a serial killer in Philadelphia, but technology left the perpetrator without a defense, police said. "We would have been able to solve the case without technology," said Homicide Unit Det. Charles Boyle. "It was a tip that did it, but the technology made it a slam-dunk." Boyle, who investigated the shooting of 48-year-old Patricia McDermott in May 2005, said a tipster identified Juan Covington as a suspect, but video collected from more than 50 private and public cameras brought the tipster forward and strengthened the case. It was not the first time authorities have used technology in a criminal investigation, but it was the first time detectives in Philadelphia used so many surveillance systems to solve a crime, Boyle said. [snip] More: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196801477 - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.2 (Build 4075) wj8DBQFFnrItq1pz9mNUZTMRAsVnAKCBF1eWsJtU/5bX9fATsJtJZ1P7zACgnWrH OU0HmD2mFGpCU37tPsvI/Sw= =hLdi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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