Comment Re:So what, exactly, does the FBI do? (Score 1) 85
Re "... but do they have any other ability to use the data?"
Parallel construction or just keeping up on slag, street crime, terms, faces, people, voice prints, images sent, gps, serial numbers in each photo or video uploaded? A vast database of interaction, who is smart and turns their phone off, two people walking towards each other who turn their phones off before a meeting but where not understood to be connected until that deeper data mining uncovered their cell logs.
Locals find the locations, federal computers look over years of huge telco logs. Funding is hidden from a local walk in FOIA at a city and state level.
Parallel construction or just keeping up on slag, street crime, terms, faces, people, voice prints, images sent, gps, serial numbers in each photo or video uploaded? A vast database of interaction, who is smart and turns their phone off, two people walking towards each other who turn their phones off before a meeting but where not understood to be connected until that deeper data mining uncovered their cell logs.
Locals find the locations, federal computers look over years of huge telco logs. Funding is hidden from a local walk in FOIA at a city and state level.