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Five police agencies in southeast Virginia have been collecting and sharing telephone records, since 2012. Wired reports the agencies have obtained some of the data from phone companies through subpoenas. And some of it has been taken from phones taken from people they have arrested.

Comments

[anon]

I have it on good authority that this is totally not happening, so nothing to see here folks.

[Adans smith]

hey,how else are these guys gonna get a date?

[Rev-Match]

"The Fourth Amendment" (US) and "Article 1, Section 10" (VA). What are they?

[anon]

Some cop in VA had to shit *really* bad.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Ignorance of the law is no excuse.

[Rev-Match]

Unless you are a cop or otherwise work in the government.

[Adans smith]

ignorance IS the law

[Redmanfms]

When do we get to the point that the representatives of the legal system (note: legal, not justice) acting as scofflaws becomes, umm, "actionable?"

[Anon E. Mouse]

How exactly does the act of legally obtaining phone records with a subpoena, searching through call records and address books on an arrestee's phone, and subsequently sharing that legally acquired information with other law enforcement agencies fall under "acting as scofflaws"? Now if you told me that the cops tapped some phones illegally, and then shared the information, this would be news, but all this "news" is is click-bait.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

NTWAIFHNTH (Nothing to worry about if you have nothing to hide).

[UnCivilServant]

No.

No more stupidly long initialisms.

There are already too many running around. It just becomes a pile of garbage.

[Pope Jimbo]

Oh, you mean NMSLI.TAATMRA.IJBAPOG. (No more stupidly long initialisms. There are already too many running around. It just becomes a pile of garbage.)

Why do you hate efficiency?

[Bardas Phocas]

FU!

[Heroic Mulatto]

Well, we now know who among us isn't part of the caste of super geniuses who protect the world.

[UnCivilServant]

It loses all credibility the moment you get to the by-line.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

OK.

(O-Kay)

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

Well, that's just great. As I sit here in Newport News and type this comment.

[Anon E. Mouse]

The police obtained some of the data from phone companies through subpoenas (legal), and some of it was taken from phones subsequent to arrest (legal). So, is the big story here is that the police used the legal tools at their disposal, or that they shared information that was legally obtained?

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