This paper explores how efforts by companies to resist government requests for consumer information may disproportionately affect small and mid-sized law enforcement agencies, as small departments face obstacles to using commercially collected information that do not occur in the context of larger departments. Differences between law enforcement agencies that serve large communities and those that serve small communities suggest corresponding differences in their ability to adapt to changes in the process for obtaining data from digital communication companies. Failing to account for these differences may encourage policies that will only work as expected for large law enforcement agencies.
Small Towns, Big Companies: How Surveillance Intermediaries Affect Small and Midsize Law Enforcement Agenci... by Hoover Institution on Scribd
