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NYPD faces backlash as it prepares to encrypt radio communications
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Critics say encryption is an ‘attack on transparency’, and that radio monitoring is one of the few ways to keep track of the police
  • Kusimulkku@lemm.eeEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’m asking you to broadcast your license plate on open internet with enough info to connect it to a certain situation, as might happen when stuff is said on radio for anyone to hear. Sucky situation, especially if you’re a victim of a crime.

    They should’ve encrypted it a long ago.

    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I think you’re well aware that a username with death threats, linking with a real identity, is much different than broadcasting “run this license plate is it clean?”

      And why exactly are we broadcasting the license plate of a victim?…