Wednesday, October 26, 2022

"UK police to use behavioral data to stop “would-be” offenders from committing crime"

Might want to backtest it in Telford.

From Reclaim the Net, October 15:

Precrimes. 

Scotland Yard seems to be dabbling in some dystopian concepts, not that far removed from the one known as “precrime” described in the book and movie “Minority Report.”

This is about law enforcement’s fictional ability and willingness to use technology to detain people for crimes they never actually committed, but were predicted to commit.

Now media reports cite London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley as announcing that the force under his command plans to utilize behavioral data collected from and about possibly tens of thousands of men to predict who might commit violent crimes against women – and using that “evidence” to prevent crime.

Rowley was previously in charge of counter-terrorism police efforts in the UK for four years, and that is where he got the idea from....

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