By Quentin Langley
With Twitter and facial recognition software being used to identify people who have been filmed engaging in looting and arson (the so-called #ukriots), the obvious follow up would be to use FourSquare, Facebook Places or Google+ to find where those people are. Does anyone know if this has happened yet?
Far from modern technology supporting crime, it may create more and better ways to track down criminals. Perhaps they will simply have to stop using smartphones or, at the very least, lock themselves out of social media completely.
The Onion realised this some time ago.
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