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Edited title to be more sensationalist - this is a Seattle local thing > The Seattle Shield website states that its mission “is to provide a collaborative and
by whimsicalism 5mo ago
Edited title to be more sensationalist - this is a Seattle local thing
> The Seattle Shield website states that its mission “is to provide a collaborative and information-sharing environment between the Seattle Police Department and public/private partners in the Seattle area. Seattle Shield members assist Seattle Police Department efforts to identify, deter, defeat or mitigate potential acts of terrorism by reporting suspicious activity in a timely manner.”
- shevy-java 5mo ago[flagged]
- whimsicalism 5mo agoInteresting. You should write an article about this and post it on HN. This article is about an unfunded website run by someone at the Seattle PD.
- jedahan 5mo agoThat network is shared with police departments in cities outside Seattle per the article.
- whimsicalism 5mo agoI encourage people imagining this as some high-scale surveillance dragnet to look at the Seattle Shield website and form their opinions https://seattleshield.org/default.aspx?MenuItemID=53&MenuGroup=Public https://seattleshield.org/default.aspx?MenuItemID=53&MenuGro...
- jedahan 5mo agoNot sure if you meant to reply here?
- john_strinlai 5mo agoah, yes, the little 8-line explanation there by the entity in question absolutely clears them of all suspicion, really. i am sure that information obtained by seattle shield is not shared to anyone outside of seattle borders. police departments and the FBI are not known to share information, after all. police are especially cagey about sharing with other agencies when it comes to counter-terrorism.
- whimsicalism 5mo agoI'm just encouraging people to look at the website itself, not actually the particular blurb I linked
- john_strinlai 5mo agothe 8 line blurb is the entire website, minus the membership signup and login. am i missing something?
- saghm 5mo agoThere's also the contact form! I'm sure if I send them a nice message they'll clear everything up
- whimsicalism 5mo agoi'm just saying that the structure of this aspx website doesn't pass the sniff test as being part of some large-scale data trawl in partnership with tech companies
- therealdrag0 5mo agoPeople post cctv footage on YouTube all the time. Is this that different?
- john_strinlai 5mo agoyep
- saghm 5mo agoGood thing that ICE has such a stellar reputation of not pushing the agenda of the national government into local affairs!