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So, Minority Report is getting real... Automatic face identification was banned in U.S. police not so long ago due to racial bias, so I guess this is going the
by otagekki 4y ago
So, Minority Report is getting real... Automatic face identification was banned in U.S. police not so long ago due to racial bias, so I guess this is going the same way. There is a lot of possible bias and a risk of "oracle effect" (blindly following whatever it says/shows).
While deployed, it will also make police look less effective at fighting crime since their anticipated presence in a neighborhood with high crime rate does not result in increased arrest or prosecution (or speeding/parking tickets, who knows?) if they act as a crime deterrent at all.
Pushing it further by collecting more data from citizens will push us into an Orwellian level of surveillance, with police ringing at your door for having done something related to something else controversial. Anyway I won't really like where that goes