Raw LLM Responses

> then pinged phones to see who was in the immediate vicinity I worked in the mobile phone industry and that's not a real thing. You could pull tower data from a nearby tower, but you can't covertly "ping phones" in the vicinity. Even if it were pulling tower data, it would be highly illegal without a warrant and no judge would grant a blanket warrant for everyone in the vicinity of some geographical coordinates from photo metadata. Also... > collects facial data it skims from social media sites ...ignoring facebook, twitter, whatsapp, etc, and only looking at instagram, there are [52 million new photos uploaded per day](https://www.quora.com/How-many-photos-are-being-uploaded-on-Instagram-daily). The cost and time it would take to process that much information would highly exceed any benefit from the relatively small number of fugitives that would be found this way--you would need google or amazon size datacenters dedicated to just doing that. So the whole story sounds like a false explanation for how he was caught, but is just plausible enough on the surface to sound like it might be true.