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I think thier point was even if you registered your kids fingerprints with the police they are not going to go around to every kid in all the dinners checking fingerprints to compare to.
My point was to only release the information to the police if and when the kid needs to be located.
Low grade corruption ...and here's why: The FBI is understaffed, misdirected & underfunded for its real mission, which I would argue must be fighting public corruption, organized crime and counter-espionage. Any objective analysis would conclude the Bureau has been politicized and its resources have been directed at operations, investigations and training that does not fulfill its core mission. The bad PR and mistrus…
The FBI's primary objective in practice seems to have always been "maintaining the existing social and political order" [1], with some swaying justification of national security and preventing violence, corruption, espionage, terrorism, cyber attacks, and other vague, broad, non-specific, topical threats.
1. https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/9475...
> mistrust the FBI has earned in recent years
Do you consider COINTELPRO–BLACK HATE recent?
https://archive.org/details/FBI-COINTELPRO-BLACK/100-HQ-4480...
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It makes me wonder if downloading this app gives the FBI a ready made backdoor into your iPhone. (not sure if that's even possible with the iOS infrastructure)
Apple scans apps, code, as does Google. But what if an Apple employee works for the FBI? Large firms are known to have moles in them, both from competitors, and from government.
There's a television ad that stands out in my memory from when I was a kid (80s). The camera pans across patrons at a diner and the voiceover is about how a kidnapped child was recovered as the camera stops on a young girl (~8yo). The child is described, but the child the camera landed on has different features (hair dyed, cut, whatever). The explanation for how she was identified is that her fingerprints were on fil…
Yep, I remember getting fingerprinted at a mall. Thanks to my folks for preemptively snitching.
I had a discussion with my Mom a couple years about this and she admitted she screwed up. I can't blame her of course. Especially since at the time there was plenty of FBI propoganda about missing kids terrifying parents and claiming this was a solution.
There's a television ad that stands out in my memory from when I was a kid (80s). The camera pans across patrons at a diner and the voiceover is about how a kidnapped child was recovered as the camera stops on a young girl (~8yo). The child is described, but the child the camera landed on has different features (hair dyed, cut, whatever). The explanation for how she was identified is that her fingerprints were on fil…
The police had petitioned the government under the guise of privacy laws to make sure they had to throw away the records. Which seems counter intuitive until you realize it'd require me to go through the same process again at a later date. More money for them.
I've less fear of my biometrics being tracked than I do of rent seeking behavior from public officials.
https://iapp.org/news/a/fbi-agrees-to-licensing-contract-wit...
Low grade corruption ...and here's why: The FBI is understaffed, misdirected & underfunded for its real mission, which I would argue must be fighting public corruption, organized crime and counter-espionage. Any objective analysis would conclude the Bureau has been politicized and its resources have been directed at operations, investigations and training that does not fulfill its core mission. The bad PR and mistrus…
I think we can have a long discussion about what the real purpose of the FBI is. And I bet even within the FBI they can have this long discussion. It is many purposed, some of which we may determine to be pro-social, or pro-democratic. While others are probably more anti-social and anti-democratic.
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Yep, I remember getting fingerprinted at a mall. Thanks to my folks for preemptively snitching.
Happened to me as well. Now the FBI has my fingerprints on file even though I've never committed a crime. I had a discussion with my Mom a couple years about this and she admitted she screwed up. I can't blame her of course. Especially since at the time there was plenty of FBI propoganda about missing kids terrifying parents and claiming this was a solution.
There's a television ad that stands out in my memory from when I was a kid (80s). The camera pans across patrons at a diner and the voiceover is about how a kidnapped child was recovered as the camera stops on a young girl (~8yo). The child is described, but the child the camera landed on has different features (hair dyed, cut, whatever). The explanation for how she was identified is that her fingerprints were on fil…