If you listen to a police scanner for a bit, you'll probably hear at least a few social (security number, full name) pairs. If you're in range, a $20 SDR dongle

If you listen to a police scanner for a bit, you'll probably hear at least a few social (security number, full name) pairs. If you're in range, a $20 SDR dongle let's you listen and record on your own, or you can just google your way to an online stream from someone else with an SDR. If you watch BWC footage on the completely public COPA (the civilian office of police accountability, an organization empowered by the govt of the city of Chicago to investigate complaints against CPD) case portal [0], you'll see a lot of intimate, unredacted footage, BWC and otherwise. I don't think the privacy laws have caught up with the tech. Or maybe the privacy is sacrificed in the name of transparency and accountability. I was not in the room where these decisions where made, so I couldn't say. [0] https://www.chicagocopa.org/data-cases/case-portal/ https://www.chicagocopa.org/data-cases/case-portal/