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Second, that term refers to the use of SIGINT (or, more likely, aggregates) collected by intelligence agencies to inform law enforcement but not add to evidence available to prosecutors

It's not this narrow. Stingrays have been used to create a map of behavior and stuff that is later executed upon.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180110/14482038982/repor...



Regardless of whether IMSI Catchers constitute according-to-Hoyle "parallel construction" or not, Palantir is database software. It's not a SIGINT source.


That was just an example about rank and file law enforcement participating in the practice.

I don't think "db vs SIGINT" is as distinguishing as you do, not to mention that surveillance work is rife with the words "query" and "selector."




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