Another day where (apparently) nothing interesting happened?
Officer Friendly now Facebook friendly?
"Demond Fernandez writes that Facebook has become a hot, new crime fighting tool for police in Conroe, Texas. Sergeant Joe Smart says Conroe police have been using its Facebook page to profile suspects and criminals since May — like a woman accused of stealing credit cards, masked gunmen caught on tape burglarizing a local store and a suspected computer thief, who the department's Facebook friends just helped police catch. 'It works. The witnesses are looking at it and they are giving us information,' says Smart. Police say Facebook friends in Conroe already helped them catch two wanted suspects and gather leads on several other open cases. Apparently the idea of using facebook to catch criminals is getting picked up in other places as the Toronto Police Service announced their goal is to have about 175 officers with online profiles by early November. 'We've prevented some pretty serious incidents simply because people reached out to the few police officers that were using social media,' says Constable Scott Mills, the force's social media officer. 'This is going to lead to a lot more trust and a lot more transparency.'"
Think of these as an “Anti-Cloud” Many useful alternatives are profiled...
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-ways-escape-cloud-storage-solutions-trust/
3 Ways To Escape Cloud Storage Solutions If You Don’t Trust Them
Most major IT companies seem convinced that shoving everything into giant data centres in the sky is the solution to many essential computing tasks. Google has weened us into the cloud over the last few years with documents, storage, email – all of Google services in fact; Apple is hot on their heels with the launch of iCloud; and Dropbox is ubiquitous for simple file sharing. But what if you don’t want all your stuff on someone else’s servers? What if you want it at home, where you can physically touch it and have complete control over it?
Let me show you how you can escape the cloud, without losing any of the functionality.
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