Pretty sure someone was able to pose as PI and get paid access a while ago.
Darkness Diaries had an episode on it
Comment on Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
The people should start buying this data to identify ICE personnel involved in incidents. It’s not like you need to be law enforcement to get access to this. You just need money.
anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Lucelu2@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Remember that tv series “Person of Interest?”… we need someone to be that guy and his team.
AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I bet a nonprofit would have a reasonable chance of raising the funds to buy the data and publicly publish it.
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
We need to be more careful than that, no one wants to end up on a list when a non-profit is required to show its books.
Should be a very private and affordable for-profit with some reasonable way to keep payments off the books
AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Are nonprofits required to track who they receive donations from? I could be wrong, but I don’t think they are. They have to have financial records, but I don’t think that means maintaining a donor list.
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
It depends on the details of the non-profit. In the circumstances I see, you’re not required to make it public, but you ARE required to provide the list to the government.
I can say, If you started a non-profit and used it to track ice, they most certainly would obtain a list of your doners if they had to go and take it from the hands of your payment provider. Even most crypto isn’t fully safe because of banking reporting required
ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“Required” isn’t the right word but they do record who donates to them because people usually want them to. People donating to non-profits will receive statements from those non-profits at year end so they can deduct the donations from their taxes when filing their return.
People can donate anonymously but if they do so, they give up their right to claim the tax deduction so most do not.