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Tech Company Enables Surveillance
Loaded on April 15, 2021
by Jayson Hawkins
published in Criminal Legal News
May, 2021, page 28
Filed under:
Police State-Surveillance,
Searches - Cellphones/Computers/Internet.
Location:
United States of America.
by Jayson Hawkins
A little-known tech company in Texas has altered the landscape of digital police surveillance. Hawk Analytics, headquartered in Bartonville, has developed software that streamlines the process police use to turn the huge quantities of information they get from cellular companies into intelligence while simultaneously gathering data on ...
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