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UK Police Want Plug-In Computer Crime Detectors
An anonymous reader writes "UK police are talking to private companies about using plug-in USB devices that can scour the hard drive of any device they are attached to, searching for evidence of illegal activity. The UK's Association of Chief Police Officers is considering using commercial devices that can perform targeted searches of text, pictures and computer code on hard drives, allowing untrained cops to detect anything from correspondence on stolen goods to child pornography. Police in the UK are desperate for a way of slashing the backlog of machines seized by the police in raids, with many forces having a backlog that will take a year to process." Maybe they shouldn't seize so many computers.
Compensation for loss of data? It isn't lost; you just can't have it. If you design shit and you lose business, then sue for that. But I would hope a judge would tell you where to stick it if you couldn't get by without your cat pictures and your link to 4chan
If God forks the Universe every time you roll a die, he'd better have a damned good memory.
Except that they'd want it to automatically send a notification to the local enforcement agency if you're not in compliance.