Comment Re:ACAB (Score 1) 85
I saw a fake advert in Germany in May 2021, posted in the name of satire.
Alle 17 Minuten ruft ein Polizist Daten von Helene Fischer ab"
Polizeiship
The advert looked like one for "Parship" which is an online dating service.
The text translates to "A policeman/woman looks up Helene Fischer's data every 17 minutes" (she is a singer) and the small print went into more detail of abusive searches by the police (of just one state) in their online database. A lawyer was getting threatening letters from self-proclaimed neo-nazis at her private address, which is not publicly available. Death threats to her and her daughter. It turned out that the data was from that police database and that the policewoman who retrieved the data held political views which tended in that direction.
To the best of my knowledge, the man who sent the threats is in jail. I don't know what happened to the policewoman, but some of her group were suspended from duty and one of them reacted by driving his car into a tree at high speed.
Flook delivers current data (if they identify people correctly) but the problem is wider than that.