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		andonisus on June 26, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mobilewalla used cellphone data to estimate the de... To what end is the targeting and profiling illegal? Simply having publicly-available analyzed is not illegal.

r00fus on June 26, 2020 [–]

It's not illegal (though unethical imho), it's the actions taken using that knowledge. Most effective if combined with parallel construction [1] that allow police to issue a trumped-up charge on a specific target.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

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