What is your first clue when an online classified ad does NOT look legitimate?
One of the biggest reason social network marketplaces have become much more popular is because of the relative safety of being able to profile people somewhat before even contacting them. Many of us have been scammed and probably all of us have been spammed after emailing someone through contact forms online and in ads.
Very rarely does it happen here because only members can post ads and membership is approved by a local admin. But it does happen a lot on sites like Craigslist. There are things most of us do to avoid getting scammed.
Share what things about ads that tip you off when a classified ad does NOT look legitimate below!
Hell, local PD's have had stingrays up and running for years capturing all data stored, received, or transmitted from any cellphone that happens to wander into its range.
I knew the guys originally involved in "shotspotter" development back in the 90's and could see this coming back then.
Flock is nobody, Palantir is the final destination of all collected data in its entirety. You have already been assigned a risk assessment if you live in the United States by them. It is available to any PD nation wide with interactive mapping that has a risk assessment buble over every house on every street or road no matter how remote. It is already in place and running policing as an algorithm in many jurisdictions.
Data centers are surveillance intelligence vaults. But like any smart investor, they are careful to not have all their eggs in a single basket but in a slightly different way. This ensures multiples of all their eggs stored in multiples of many baskets.
All backed up offshore as well. If you're not doing anything illegal, they will simply make something you are doing illegal.