Good thing that ICE has such a stellar reputation of not pushing the agenda of the national government into local affairs!
replyThat network is shared with police departments in cities outside Seattle per the article.
replyI encourage people imagining this as some high-scale surveillance dragnet to look at the Seattle Shield website and form their opinions https://seattleshield.org/default.aspx?MenuItemID=53&MenuGro...
replyah, yes, the little 8-line explanation there by the entity in question absolutely clears them of all suspicion, really.
replyi am sure that information obtained by seattle shield is not shared to anyone outside of seattle borders. police departments and the FBI are not known to share information, after all. police are especially cagey about sharing with other agencies when it comes to counter-terrorism.
I'm just encouraging people to look at the website itself, not actually the particular blurb I linked
replythe 8 line blurb is the entire website, minus the membership signup and login. am i missing something?
replyThere's also the contact form! I'm sure if I send them a nice message they'll clear everything up
replyi'm just saying that the structure of this aspx website doesn't pass the sniff test as being part of some large-scale data trawl in partnership with tech companies
replyNot sure if you meant to reply here?
replyYou have Trump. You see how he is surrounded by the superrich.
replyYou have Palantir.
You still think this is "sensationalist"? I don't think so. The assumption here is that you wish to isolate this onto Seattle only. I think this is global instead. By focusing only on Seattle we lose the wider picture. Anyone remembers how people were surprised that Facebook connects offline-data to accounts? It's why they are more accurately called Spybook.
Interesting. You should write an article about this and post it on HN. This article is about an unfunded website run by someone at the Seattle PD.
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