• DunkinCoder@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    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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        10 months ago

        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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          10 months ago

          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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            10 months ago

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

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            10 months ago

            faced with evidence that includes public radio and the atlantic, you decide it’s all bullshit because your overwhelming mountain of evidence to strengthen your premise is - zilch?

            look dweezle, assert your own facts with citations or admit you’re wrong, you sound like a right wing bozo.

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              10 months ago

              wow, what an overwhelming mountain of evidence!

              you resorted to childish name calling… which is very right wing of you, ummm also you seem like a genocidal dictator!
              and a person with poor table manners!!!

              p.s. dweezil is pretty cool anyways, so thanks for the compliment.

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                9 months ago

                and you still don’t have an argument to posit.

                what a weak mind. nothing but distractions and garbage floating around up there huh?

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                  9 months ago

                  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…