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> any data requests seem to have served a legitimate purpose Any and all?

• sandworm101 4y ago
  Yes. If the cops submitted a thousand data requests and 999 of them came back with nothing, but one of them prevented someone from gunning down people, then they are were justifiable requests. Anyone wanting to argue about cops overreaching and breaking rules should point to a situation where the cops didn't find anything horrible.
  • recuter 4y ago
    > Anyone wanting to argue about cops overreaching and breaking rules should point to a situation where the cops didn't find anything horrible. You just gave a hypothetical where 999 times out of 1000 that is the case. I remember a plot to blow up a bunch of buildings and behead the Canadian PM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Ontario_terrorism_plot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Ontario_terrorism_plot How carefully in your view should the muslim community in Canada be monitored? Edit: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.pinimg.com%2F736x%2Ffe%2F8f%2F72%2Ffe8f72666b9be3e6eb8c7e9ed2ef8069.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=b9fb2f88c16ff24efbf8f10d553380aea1096583bf8b66d246e0e27bd8dd559f&ipo=images https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...
  • anigbrowl 4y ago
    I don't think an 0.1% success rate is at all valid, though I recognize it was a verbal flourish rather than a statistical claim. I am distinctly unsympathetic to the Canada trucker protest, but you're applying the logic of prison surveillance to regular society and that is a sure recipe for a bad outcome. If safety is this important to you, then you might be happier in an authoritarian country like Singapore or Saudi Arabia.