.. majoring in medicine, calls her on the phone. "Can I take you out to the pictures, Jo..an?" But as she's getting ready to go, a knock comes on the door..
that's really not the point. It might assist the police in catching criminals. occasionally. But it's illegal, and will cause a lot more problems for the law-abiding than for the criminal.
even if we assume reasonable practices by the operators (a truly terrible assumption), those photos were not AUTHORIZED to be used for this purpose. I read all the fine print when i sign crap at the dmv, and there is nothing in there about the image being used for anything except to print on your driver's license. It may be ok to use a database of mugshots, ianal, but i do know that gathering this type of information about citizens is both wrong and illegal. The excuse would be even flimsier than the one they use to tap arbitrary phone lines.
I don't know why the US thinks it can do these things, but i think the constitution needs an amendment more specifically giving a right to privacy, and detailing what steps the state may and may not take.
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..all levels of cache discoverable?
What about registers? They can be "read from, just like a hard disk"..
.. majoring in medicine,
calls her on the phone.
"Can I take you out to the pictures,
Jo..an?"
But as she's getting ready to go,
a knock comes on the door..
that's really not the point.
It might assist the police in catching criminals. occasionally.
But it's illegal, and will cause a lot more problems for the law-abiding than for the criminal.
even if we assume reasonable practices by the operators (a truly terrible assumption),
those photos were not AUTHORIZED to be used for this purpose.
I read all the fine print when i sign crap at the dmv, and there is nothing in there about the image being used for anything except to print on your driver's license.
It may be ok to use a database of mugshots, ianal, but i do know that gathering this type of information about citizens is both wrong and illegal. The excuse would be even flimsier than the one they use to tap arbitrary phone lines.
I don't know why the US thinks it can do these things, but i think the constitution needs an amendment more specifically giving a right to privacy, and detailing what steps the state may and may not take.