Swedish Police Use WhatsApp For Surveillance Ops, Share Intel With Civilians 37
New submitter TheP4st writes "A group of Swedish police officers thought it would be a good idea to use WhatsApp as a work tool for surveillance operations. The officer that set up their chat group mistyped one of the phone numbers to mistakenly include a civilian IT teacher. Once the teacher informed authorities about the mistake, it took more than 24 hours before he stopped receiving sensitive case information, which included criminal records, passport photos, and communications between surveillance teams tailing suspects. When confronted by Computer Sweden (Google translation of Swedish original), the officer responsible for setting up the group said, 'I know this server is not located in Sweden and that one cannot share every kind of information.' The only mobile chat medium approved for sensitive information is BlackBerry, and this initiative by a small group of officers happened because they do not have access to BlackBerry handsets."
SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid (Score:4, Funny)
And why you should, too.
Truly cross-platform (even PC!)
Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid (Score:4, Funny)
Re:blackberry (Score:4, Funny)
Just got a Z10, I love it! It's OK if you guys hate me though :)
No, no, I find endangered species from vanishing ecosystems to be quite interesting. Some of them are also cute, tasty, or a source of fascinating new biologically active compounds. Like those wacky Amazonian frogs.
Re:Oh FFS! (Score:4, Funny)
Yes. They use Oracle. It has gone about as well as you would expect. Seriously (in Swedish, sorry). [nyteknik.se]
The last comment on that article claims that the Swedish police basically got a new CIO who felt he had to prove his worth by making some sort grand decision. He decided to switch tracks and use Siebel as the basis of their new system.
Sounds plausible enough.