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Out of curiosity, how about if you were investigating potential crime, or tasked with crime prevention? In other words, crimes that you believe are being planne
by facetube 11y ago
Out of curiosity, how about if you were investigating potential crime, or tasked with crime prevention? In other words, crimes that you believe are being planned and may happen in the future, based on some non-individualized correlation (e.g. past shootings in a particularly problematic neighborhood). Would this change your approach?
- eli 11y agoI'm not sure I understand the question. If I were investigating a potential crime and I thought it was important and I thought some company had information that would help me solve it or prevent it, then yes, I would probably ask the company about it. Wouldn't you?
- ccvannorman 11y agoOne at a time, sure, ask the companies. But are you going to write an algorithm to ask every single company in the US about every single possible crime? What would you then do with that information? It would be a ridiculous amount of false positives and innocent people getting privacy and rights thrown by the wayside. I think that's what he's getting at... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positive_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positive_paradox
- facetube 11y agoExactly, thanks for stating it more clearly than I did. The NSA isn't claiming credible evidence of a specific threat to justify this for a limited period of time – they're collecting everything and sifting through it, in order to try to prevent harm caused by an open-ended and non-specific threat.