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This is excellent. There will be blood on our hands if we allow our software to be used to more closely surveil and police people. Not only because the software

This is excellent. There will be blood on our hands if we allow our software to be used to more closely surveil and police people. Not only because the software as it currently exists is flaky, but because of how it will enviably be used. Certain communities will have it deployed against them more, parallel construction will hide when technology is used in violation of rights, police and juries will believe when technology has a "hit" that it proves guilt and not understand the caveats, etc etc. Some Microsoft employees have been calling for such limits for years [1, 2] [1] https://www.geekwire.com/2019/microsoft-github-workers-protest-ice-contracts-latest-demonstration-employee-activism/ https://www.geekwire.com/2019/microsoft-github-workers-prote... [2] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/microsoft-workers-asking-drop-police-contracts/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/microsoft-workers-asking-drop-p...

chefandy 2y ago
If it's like what they did with the military, they're just trying to push them into a more expensive licensing scheme.
rockinghigh 2y ago
The NYPD has had a system built by Microsoft for 15 years: > Beginning in 2009, the NYPD, in partnership with Microsoft, built a powerful counterterrorism and policing tool called the Domain Awareness System (DAS). The DAS is a central platform used to aggregate data from internal and external closed-circuit television cameras (CCTV), license plate readers (LPRs), and environmental sensors, as well as 911 calls and other NYPD databases. The DAS uses an interactive dashboard interface to display real-time alerts whenever a 911 call is received or a sensor is triggered. The DAS also in- cludes mapping features that make it possible to survey and track targets. The DAS was originally built to support the Lower Manhattan Security Initiative (LMSI) – a public-private partnership – but has since expanded to cover the entire city, giving NYPD personnel direct access to thousands of cameras owned and operated by private orga- nizations. Until the development of the mobility platform and the mobile DAS system described below, the full capabilities of DAS have only been available to the Counterterrorism Bureau and a few other specially trained officers on desktop computers. As the NYPD upgrades its network, access to all DAS capabilities and resources will be expanded to all NYPD’s commands. https://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/home/POA/pdf/Technology.pdf https://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/home/POA/pdf/Technology.p...
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chefandy 2y ago

If it's like what they did with the military, they're just trying to push them into a more expensive licensing scheme.

rockinghigh 2y ago

The NYPD has had a system built by Microsoft for 15 years: > Beginning in 2009, the NYPD, in partnership with Microsoft, built a powerful counterterrorism and policing tool called the Domain Awareness System (DAS). The DAS is a central platform used to aggregate data from internal and external closed-circuit television cameras (CCTV), license plate readers (LPRs), and environmental sensors, as well as 911 calls and other NYPD databases. The DAS uses an interactive dashboard interface to display real-time alerts whenever a 911 call is received or a sensor is triggered. The DAS also in- cludes mapping features that make it possible to survey and track targets. The DAS was originally built to support the Lower Manhattan Security Initiative (LMSI) – a public-private partnership – but has since expanded to cover the entire city, giving NYPD personnel direct access to thousands of cameras owned and operated by private orga- nizations. Until the development of the mobility platform and the mobile DAS system described below, the full capabilities of DAS have only been available to the Counterterrorism Bureau and a few other specially trained officers on desktop computers. As the NYPD upgrades its network, access to all DAS capabilities and resources will be expanded to all NYPD’s commands. https://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/home/POA/pdf/Technology.pdf https://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/home/POA/pdf/Technology.p...

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