[gnarlouse]

On the one hand, this is a beautiful (but depressing) story about humans standing up for each other.

On the other hand, this is clearly propaganda from the BBC to push police state functionality on the UK population by pre-justifying it. "See what happens? Never mind the part about it taking six years. Let us see everything in your fucking lives, you twats."

[lambdaone]

None of this required a police state. Just people working together to cross-correlate information in the way that you would expect to be able to do in an open society.

What wrong do you think was done here? What would you prefer to be different?

[NoGravitas]

Nothing wrong was done by the police here -- it's all good old-fashioned detective work. But they wanted to have Facebook use facial recognition to find the victim among all the photographs on Facebook. And that actually would have gotten them results faster, because finding the identity of the victim was enough to break the case, in the end. But it also would have been a very bad precedent in terms of surveillance.

[gnarlouse]

That is fair, I’m out of line.

[bazmattaz]

I found it quite depressing to read. This guy spent so much time to put just one offender behind bars but the are likely hundreds of thousands out there. So sad

[tr888]

I have literally no idea how you've ended up at that conclusion from the article!

[butlike]

Same. In a world where police agents are committing atrocities, a world where ICE agents are running amok, it's nice to hear about some actual good that comes from the police force

[tqi]

Plus a chance to dunk on their biggest competitor for ad revenue and clicks (Facebook)

[Pay08]

In what sense are Facebook and the BBC competitors?