• DunkinCoderEnglish
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    I’m surprised that more people don’t know not to FAFO involving Target. When a company has a lab that’s sophisticated enough where LEOs ask for assistance on unrelated investigations, that’s never a good sign.

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      lol law enforcement does not get help from target, ffs

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        https://corporate.target.com/news-features/article/2012/02/an-unexpected-career-target-forensic-services-labo

        Unbeknownst to most, Target has a top-rated forensic services laboratory that provides forensic examinations, and assists outside law enforcement with help on special cases.

        https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/csi-walmart/521565/

        Target and Walmart both declined to comment for this story, but in a press release from 2012, Target said it volunteers to get involved with with “felony, homicide, and special-circumstances cases. In 2008, a Target spokesperson told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that a quarter of the cases it worked on were unrelated to the company itself.

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          so they look at surveillance video for murderers they’re not solving outside crimes

          Inside, they comb through video-surveillance records and spirit data out of devices that have seen better days        
          

          its a “digital forensics” lab they’re investigating embezzlement hackers
          the whole “target is the panopticon” thing is a clever viral marketing ploy to reduce shoplifting

          that and the thing where they supposedly keep tabs on you for years until you hit a felony total of shoplifting, THEN they bust you and you have to pay $5,000,000,000
          that’s not even how laws work

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          some minnesota local news blog from 2011 yeah ok

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            MPR is MInnesota Public Radio, not ‘some local news blog’, and Target is headquartered in Minnesota.

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              Removed by mod

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                  and you still don’t have an argument to posit

                  posit? like you’re participating in some sort of discussion?
                  no, you’re very weakly trolling, and i won’t be positing any arguments to someone of your churlish disposition

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        Ya, that would imply that Leo’s give a fuck about solving actual crimes.