• Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Jesus. I can’t believe they haven’t encrypted sooner. “We have a situation here, wait let me call you.”

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      11 months ago

      Why would the situation need to be kept private? “We have a jumper at this and this street”, “shots fired on scene”, “I ate a burrito.”

      I’m honestly curious, what vitally secret info do you think needs to be communicated over radio? They aren’t for conversations.

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        11 months ago

        To keep the private info of the people involved actually private. License plates, descriptions, home addresses, personally identifiable info. It seems mad that all of that is just broadcasted out to everyone. Probably wouldn’t even be legal where I live because of privacy concerns.

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          11 months ago

          License plates are not private, they literally sit out in public all day. Descriptions are, again, not private. Even your license info is public.

          Not to mention, police reports are info that can be requested with a FOIA request. So all that info is public anyway, even if it was originally private.

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            11 months ago

            Would you be willing to share your license plate number here?

            License plate, connected to description and description of the situation, medical stuff etc. would obviously be something I wouldn’t want broadcasted to just anyone. I don’t know how Americans are comfortable with that.

            Or well, probably aren’t since they’re finally getting around to encrypting that stuff. It’s wild that it wasn’t done before.