BEWARE---Precrime is Here---'Minority Report' From the Screen to Real Life
Posted by Zenphamy 9 years, 3 months ago to Government
I've watched small info releases and publication of work on this system and it's type over the last several years, but it's now moved into a Police Department near you and me--Now. From the article:
"According to a report from the Washington Post, when Fresno police received a 911 call about a man threatening his ex-girlfriend, they consulted the “Beware” software, which “scoured billions of data points, including arrest reports, property records, commercial databases, deep Web searches and the man’s social media postings.”
The software search found that the man had both a “firearm conviction” and a “gang association,” which put his “threat level” at the highest of three possible color-coded scores."
And:
"“It’s trying to forecast based on maybe your past behavior, or what is seen in your social media – a change in behavior or a change in the things you’re posting about,” Smith said. “They say ‘maybe this person is going to perpetrate a crime in the future,’ and then they want prevention from police officers.”"
I'd guess in 2yrs or less, we'll see legislation to enable a pre-crime intervention law and I'd bet we'll see it offered as justification on a Pre-Crime Police Killing "mistake".
"According to a report from the Washington Post, when Fresno police received a 911 call about a man threatening his ex-girlfriend, they consulted the “Beware” software, which “scoured billions of data points, including arrest reports, property records, commercial databases, deep Web searches and the man’s social media postings.”
The software search found that the man had both a “firearm conviction” and a “gang association,” which put his “threat level” at the highest of three possible color-coded scores."
And:
"“It’s trying to forecast based on maybe your past behavior, or what is seen in your social media – a change in behavior or a change in the things you’re posting about,” Smith said. “They say ‘maybe this person is going to perpetrate a crime in the future,’ and then they want prevention from police officers.”"
I'd guess in 2yrs or less, we'll see legislation to enable a pre-crime intervention law and I'd bet we'll see it offered as justification on a Pre-Crime Police Killing "mistake".
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I absolutely agree that it is anti-liberty. If the politicians want to do something like this, they should be the first volunteers to have THEIR profiles released to the public. That would be an eye-opener.
"fascistic BHO ......" makes it okay in the future to put
my name in the "potential terrorist" database. . then,
if I were stopped by police for a traffic situation, they
could treat me like a closet terrorist as they please.
this is frightening. . Thank You, Zen! -- j
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We all know it won't stop there though. I know everyone worries about 'big brother' stuff, but quite frankly, I'm a federal contractor, that assumes some level of competence by the federal workforce to implement, which doesn't exist. It takes 10 of them to figure out how to schedule a meeting in Outlook.
Now if you see something in the news that General Dynamics IT, Booze Allen, Northrup Grumman, etc.. has been "contracted to provide this service to federal law enforcement", now you really need to be concerned. The feds don't do the NSA spying, the contractors do, actually. Federal hiring requires bonus points for being disabled, one purple eye, Native American ancestors, etc.. and it's really difficult to actually hire the right person for the job since the skills don't matter as much as politically-correct points on the application. The contractors don't have that problem.
Clearly our ability to predict violent acts is no where near that good. But what would we do if it were? If we were over 95% certain that violence was going to occur would stopping it be justified?
Of course punishing people for what they didn't do is right out -- but that was necessary for a movie.
I think thats where our government is going. Individual freedom is the opposite of this
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