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> That may be acceptable as long as it’s one tool in many, he said, but data shouldn’t drive the entire justice system. Data has always driven all the decision
by finid 10y ago
> That may be acceptable as long as it’s one tool in many, he said, but data shouldn’t drive the entire justice system.
Data has always driven all the decisions we make. It's just that in the past, before big data, our personal computers (read: brains) did the data wrangling. By the way, we still do it. It's how humans and other living things employ profiling.
- Terr_ 10y ago"The checks and balances of democratic governments were invented because humans themselves realized how unfit they were to govern themselves. They needed a system, yes. An industrial age machine."