160TB of data, and % that is unlawful, yet Police ignore UK and at the time EU rules and official guidelines?
Scottish cops dangle £6m for help understanding 160TB treasure trove of structured and unstructured data
The Scottish Police Authority is on the hunt for virtual data warehouse and data lake providers as part of a £6m tender intended to help the public body derive some value from the huge volumes of data it is sat on. The authority said it stores around 100TB of unstructured data alongside a further 60TB of structured data that …
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Wednesday 10th June 2020 20:34 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: a single rack
As is the way that suddenly something isn't a crime or doesn't have a good potential for success when committed by a serving officer of sgt or above....
(yes I was threatened with violence in the street by a plod scotland Sgt for daring to file a complaint about offensive behaviour in my parents street and yes I had a witness....fiscal closed ranks with the cops and refused to justify their decision "we don't have to explain ourselves to the general public", said same cop "retired" with full pension after battering a suspect in custody and every excuse under the sun was used to get him off the charges....barely)
First step towards a police state, hasn't happened yet due to lack of personnel, a genderal laziness from rank and file and utter incompetence.....
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Wednesday 10th June 2020 14:05 GMT Danny 2
Re: a single rack
They do not have cameras in police cars, except in a few dedicated traffic police cars.
A British Transport Police car cut me up late at night last year, would've crashed into me if I didn't brake, and I had footage of it and they didn't. I immediately drove to a cop shop to report it. I didn't press charges but was assured by a BTP Sergeant that the driver had been reprimanded as their drivers are trained to be better than 17 year old boy racers.
tl/dr - most UK cop cars don't have cams
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Friday 12th June 2020 15:28 GMT Danny 2
Re: a single rack
My parents suffered 13 police raids/visits in 5 years because of me. They knew where I was living and that I'd walk into a cop shop if they phoned and asked, but they also knew bullying my parents was the best way to pressure me.
After the 13th I put in a formal complaint, and they went through the motions but ended up threatening to visit my parents for evidence if I pursued the complaint.
In my experience the best thing to give abusive cops pause for thought is a Data Protection request. I asked for every time, date and reason they had been to my parents house, that cured it. Some clear figures you can just pass to a Sheriff or Judge.
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Thursday 11th June 2020 09:45 GMT Anonymous Coward
People are scared to delete, records management isn't always clear on every document particularly the likes of healthcare where whether you delete something isn't just down to whether someone is living or dead but also what was wrong with them, events they were involved in e.g. child sex abuse scandal - all of those are being kept indefinitely as the Scottish Government drags that on.
It's not an easy task, especially as the people who generated a lot of this have since retired and organisations have merged over the decades etc.
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Wednesday 10th June 2020 14:34 GMT Danny 2
It's a trap!
Police forces make for bad clients in the best of times with simple, harmless products. Sticking all their data onto the cloud is just inviting a lengthy prison term when it goes tits-up and a scapegoat is required. Although it would be fun to browse all their data, and you could sell that repeatedly to crims for many times the value of the contract. You’ve gotta ask yourself one question: “Do I feel lucky?” Well, do ya, punk?”
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Thursday 11th June 2020 11:50 GMT hoola
Re: This will not help
The consultancy and marketing BS lost will be wetting themselves with this. You can do some basic scanning to find out the contents of some documents that may give you a clue as to what is in it or where to move it.
Ultimately it does not matter how much tech or money you throw at these things the only person who can actually identify the data is the person(s) that put it there.
All the same 160TB is not that much.
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Wednesday 10th June 2020 20:38 GMT Anonymous Coward
Well it was your lot the "Scottish National Socialist Party" aka the Natzis who brought them into being and created a modern state police, just like Hitler merged Germany's police to form the Gestapo (Gestadt Polizei), Along with the party loyalists on the SPA who are fuming that parliament took away their oversight powers for...failing to do any oversight and just rubberstamping anything the police asked for and then deriding anyone who sounded the alarm..
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