According to Dene Moore of the Canadian Press, too many people have too many mobile phones and too much connectivity. As has been witnessed in Iraq where camera phones have been more harmful to field operations than journalists — a first — we now witness some pushback from the police force of Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). From an internal criminal intelligence brief prepared in March, “As a communication device in both voice and electronic text-based format, the cellphone’s ubiquity in the general public becomes a phenomenon to be reckoned with.”
According to Dene Moore of the Canadian Press, too many people have too many mobile phones and too much connectivity. As has been witnessed in Iraq where camera phones have been more harmful to field operations than journalists — a first — we now witness some pushback from the police force of Canada, the [...]
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@ 08:45
Too much of a good thing? What pushback?
“New technology always presents new challenges for police,” said Ted Vincent, manager of the information technology section for the Ontario Provincial Police. “Every twist in technology has benefits and not-so-beneficial things that occur. Some people have a mind to … make it really useful to the community and others will find ways of turning it into something in the criminal element.” But the fact is there is little police can do, Vincent said.
RCMP are continually assessing all new technologies that emerge, said Cpl. Monique Beauchamp, national spokeswoman for the RCMP.
“It is a new technology, it’s evolving, but certainly nothing that is unmanageable at this point,” Beauchamp said.
It doesn’t sound like Canadian law enforcement are overly concerned…
@ 09:44
I guess it might be a word choice. Pushback is different in my mind than crackdown. I didn’t mean crackdown, I meant a response. A pushback.