Dutch cops target soccer thugs
p2pnet.net News:- Rotterdam police have filmed riots at soccer matches and posted images of suspects on their Web site, drawing complaints from privacy groups, says the Associated Press.
Dutch police also recently sent 17,000 text messages to the mobile phones of fans who marred a Rotterdam soccer match by rioting before, during and after, it says.
Two train cars were vandalized beyond repair, 43 fans were arrested and 47 police officers and an unknown number of fans were injured, it says, going on:
Phone companies voluntarily handed over the mobile numbers of people who were in or around the stadium that day. The companies did not give individual names to police, and police sent a standard message asking people to come forward if they had information.
But four suspects, apparently under the impression they`d been identified, contacted police Wednesday, and a fifth turned himself in directly, AP has Rotterdam police spokesman Ger de Jong saying.
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Associated Press – Dutch Police Use Text Messages in Hunt, August 31, 2005
September 1st, 2005 at 2:55 pm
I do not like being tracked like an animal. I do have a prepaid cell phone in case I have to make an emergency call, but the battery stays out of the phone unless I am making a call. I have a one way pager that is used by people who may need to contact me. If people only realized how easily the conviently used technology that they buy could be used against them, they would be very afraid.
September 1st, 2005 at 2:59 pm
wow… talk about invasion of privacy…
even if the cause is a just one…
September 1st, 2005 at 7:33 pm
“If people only realized how easily the conviently used technology that they buy could be used against them, they would be very afraid.”
So, how do you like the idea of MS Vista?
September 1st, 2005 at 7:43 pm
Um, if you are going to engage in criminal activity, perhaps a PUBLIC soccer match is not the best place to do it. If you are mugging someone on a public street and a passerby snaps a pic of you then gives it to the police who post it at the post office (or on a website) to try to find and arrest you I don’t see how that is an invasion of your privacy.
However, THIS is the part that bothers me.
âPhone companies voluntarily handed over the mobile numbers of people who were in or around the stadium that day.”
September 2nd, 2005 at 1:33 pm