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LulzSec Document Dump Shows Cops' Fear of iPhones

Posted by Soulskill on from the sunlight-is-the-best-disinfectant dept.

jfruhlinger writes "People are starting to comb through the details of the law enforcement documents made public by LulzSec. Blogger Kevin Fogarty noticed one interesting trend: The cops seem very anxious about iPhones, particularly apps that would allow encounters with police officers to be recorded. Ironically, the cops seem extremely concerned with protecting their own privacy, but the documents encourage police to examine iPhones during the course of interacting with the public to see what apps they have."

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  1. Oy by NoKaOi · · Score: 4, Informative

    First off, according the article, they're not encouraged to search iPhones whenever interacting with the public, but rather when they arrest somebody. Secondly, it's pretty bad that they posted the home addresses of a bunch of cops. Mind you, I'm all for outing all this BS, but not all cops are bad (although there's certainly a lot that abuse their authority). And of course, shouldn't the cops want to be recorded if they're not doing anything wrong? On TV, people being arrested often claim bogus police brutality or some such nonsense. In real life, having a bystander recording the situation could help them. Of course, in real life, if they actually are abusing their authority then they do have something to hide. Seems to me any cop that doesn't want themselves to be recorded while performing PUBLIC duties in PUBLIC places isn't confident that they're not going to get in trouble for doing something wrong.

  2. Re:no expectation of privacy by Riceballsan · · Score: 4, Informative

    Since when is it illegal for your boss to record you at work?, if it is just about every convenience store, wal-mart and half the restaurants in the world are breaking the law. If I remember right from when I worked at subway, there was a security camera filming the back room, the register (at an angle to monitor for both robbers and to catch cashiers from taking from their own registers, and it was more then common for someone to get fired for sitting around on the job, stealing from the register etc... based on evidence from those cameras.