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by intelligent profiling, I mean more the way the Israelis do it: psychological profiling, looking for telltale signs of nervousness/guilt etc., ranking people
by blisterpeanuts 10y ago
by intelligent profiling, I mean more the way the Israelis do it: psychological profiling, looking for telltale signs of nervousness/guilt etc., ranking people by profession/origin/appearance, and randomly singling people out for more extensive scrutiny (but not so random as to nab the 80-year-old grandmother in a wheelchair).
- schoen 10y agoIsraeli airport profiling also uses religious and ethnic or national origin. When I've heard people endorse it as a good model for the U.S. in the past, I thought they were often saying they wished U.S. airport screening would use those things.
- athenot 10y agoBut that kind of profiling involves human judgement in a qualitative way, which is not very popular in the US. Instead, we prefer to use metrics, which we can mesure, aggregate and compile in neat reports. But metrics are a projection of a multidimensional situation onto a few dimensions, and hoping we picked the correct projection. I'm all for collecting stats but I wish that was just a tool used in addition to a broader qualitative approach.
- ivraatiems 10y ago> ranking people by profession/origin/appearance So a white computer programmer from Seattle might be "safer" than a brown janitor from Dearborn? And right there is your discrimination lawsuit. No government agency wants to expose themselves to that kind of challenge, even if they might win.