• DroneRights [it/its]@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      No, I’ve been in this situation as a victim. My bike was stolen and they said it would take hours to search the CCTV. I told them about binary search, they didn’t understand.

    • Sparking@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      Yeah, seriously. What is even the context of this? We have no idea. The cops might have been like “We need a warrant to look at that footage you idiot.”

      • kablammy@sh.itjust.works
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        11 months ago

        Whoever owns the camera presumably has an interest in reducing/solving crime in the area (why else have cameras?), so they would likely be happy to make the footage available to police if asked nicely, with no warrant required.

        • Sparking@lemm.ee
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          11 months ago

          Yeah, in general, but not necessarily in that circumstance. A lot of time talking to tech people (I’m a softwar engineer) they can can be smug about this while leaving out important context.