Re: Wireless: Cracking down on crime in a cellular era

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

How is it different than SMS spam?

- ferg


-- Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Fergie wrote:

> This sets a rather disturbing precedent...

Why is this more disturbing that any other police appeal to the public for 
information about a crime? 
 
> Chris Oakes writes in The International Herald Tribune:
>
> [snip]
>
> When soccer fans rioted in Rotterdam last April - this time targeting
> the police, not just rival fans - they might have expected a fierce
> chase. There was no way to foresee, however, the unique wireless wrinkle
> used in the pursuit by prosecutors determined to round up as many of the
> offenders as possible.
>
> After the initial phase of the investigation left many of more than 200
> suspects on the loose, the Dutch authorities turned to a kind of
> cellular door-to-door search - mass text messaging in search of criminal
> information.

[snip]



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