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I think it gets more problematic when the data is shared and human judgement is eliminated. What happens if someone is lost in a neighborhood and accidentally d

I think it gets more problematic when the data is shared and human judgement is eliminated. What happens if someone is lost in a neighborhood and accidentally displays "suspicious" behavior in multiple locations? They are then logged in a database as a suspicious person and potentially pointed out to law enforcement as a suspect without any chance to explain themselves. I don't think this technology would be quite as bad if the data was kept local to a house, but as is there could be so many terrible consequences.

jklinger410 8y ago
>What happens if someone is lost in a neighborhood and accidentally displays "suspicious" behavior in multiple locations? They are then logged in a database as a suspicious person and potentially pointed out to law enforcement as a suspect without any chance to explain themselves. Where is the issue here? That we provide suspicious activity reports, or that our police SEEMINGLY can't reliably deal with those reports?
- drb91 8y ago
  Why is this data worth reporting at all? What good can come from it?
- llukas 8y ago
  Being lost is not suspicious activity. Feeding false positives to law enforcement causes them not to work what is important or to redirect resources to filtering reports.
  - eeZah7Ux 8y ago
    False positive can very well lead to innocent people being beaten for "looking suspicious".
- ohithereyou 8y ago
  If you have no fear that the police will cause you harm when they get a report of suspicious activity involving you then your life has been very privileged.
- gambler 8y ago
  The problem is giving police so much information that they can pick and choose what to act upon to justify their goals that have nothing to do with what have been reporter.
- JohnFen 8y ago
  Involving the police is an issue, but that's really not the first thing that comes to my mind. The first thing that comes to my mind is that people who use these systems would be causing innocent others to be included in Big Data databases without their knowledge or consent. I think that it's not only immoral to do so, it is straight-up antisocial and harmful to community and society. We have more than enough of that sort of thing already.

jklinger410 8y ago

>What happens if someone is lost in a neighborhood and accidentally displays "suspicious" behavior in multiple locations? They are then logged in a database as a suspicious person and potentially pointed out to law enforcement as a suspect without any chance to explain themselves. Where is the issue here? That we provide suspicious activity reports, or that our police SEEMINGLY can't reliably deal with those reports?

drb91 8y ago
Why is this data worth reporting at all? What good can come from it?
llukas 8y ago
Being lost is not suspicious activity. Feeding false positives to law enforcement causes them not to work what is important or to redirect resources to filtering reports.
- eeZah7Ux 8y ago
  False positive can very well lead to innocent people being beaten for "looking suspicious".
ohithereyou 8y ago
If you have no fear that the police will cause you harm when they get a report of suspicious activity involving you then your life has been very privileged.
gambler 8y ago
The problem is giving police so much information that they can pick and choose what to act upon to justify their goals that have nothing to do with what have been reporter.
JohnFen 8y ago
Involving the police is an issue, but that's really not the first thing that comes to my mind. The first thing that comes to my mind is that people who use these systems would be causing innocent others to be included in Big Data databases without their knowledge or consent. I think that it's not only immoral to do so, it is straight-up antisocial and harmful to community and society. We have more than enough of that sort of thing already.