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NYC Police Gathering Cellphone Logs
Dupple writes "When a cellphone is reported stolen in New York, the Police Department routinely subpoenas the phone's call records, from the day of the theft onward. The logic is simple: If a thief uses the phone, a list of incoming and outgoing calls could lead to the suspect. But in the process, the Police Department has quietly amassed a trove of telephone logs, all obtained without a court order, that could conceivably be used for any investigative purpose. The call records from the stolen cellphones are integrated into a database known as the Enterprise Case Management System, according to Police Department documents from the detective bureau. Each phone number is hyperlinked, enabling detectives to cross-reference it against phone numbers in other files."
"Each phone number is hyperlinked, enabling detectives to cross-reference it against phone numbers in other files."
In other words, guilt by association.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
if my phone is ever stolen i give the NYPD permission to monitor the calls the scumbags make off MY PROPERTY
and one of these days i need to go down to the police station and have the NYPD engrave my phone like they do with cars
"Monitoring" is an active, ongoing process. Obtaining call records is a one-time request for a static set of data. Not the same.