[Ygg2]

Wat.

Wat.

blinks Wat.

This must be stupidest thing I've ever read in my entire life. It's like saying that we should all affix a gun to our hand because it works so well in FPS.

Or that hiding in a corner makes you recover from cancer. I don't care if he didn't say it really.

I blame either him for saying or the journalist for writing so illogical.

[gb]

The exact quote from the linked BBC article is:

"In the most serious crimes [such as] child abduction communications data... is absolutely vital. I love watching, as I probably should stop telling people, crime dramas on the television. There's hardly a crime drama where a crime is solved without using the data of a mobile communications device."

[Ygg2]

Ok, then the writter is just a moron.

It's a weak position, but he is using an analogy, so that makes (slightly) more sense.

I wonder how much of such data can be used in a police investigation? I'm actually Ok that they use it to prevent a crime, but charging you for it, if they don't have any legal evidence is also fine by me.