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DENE MOORE
"Cellphones, Internet put new twist on crime; RCMP report focuses on rise of `flash mobs'. Easy access and advances in everyday technology such as cellphones and text-messaging are putting police on the alert.
That was the message contained in an internal RCMP report obtained by Canadian Press using Access to Information legislation.
'As a communication device in both voice and electronic text-based format, the cellphone's ubiquity in the general public becomes a phenomenon to be reckoned with,' says the criminal intelligence brief prepared in March.
In Britain, the report says, police have confiscated mobile phones from people demonstrating against the war in Iraq.
'The (British) police are cracking down on activists who come equipped with mobiles ? and are apparently empowered to do so' under provisions of anti-terrorism laws brought in after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, the report notes."
