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Predictive policing: Don’t even think about it
- omarforgotpwd 13y agoWoah! I'm the technical founder of this company and I hadn't even seen this article yet. Pretty surreal to see it on hacker news.
- cubsink 13y agoCool and congrats. Great idea you guys have. But if this evolves into a more advanced working system, please remember this plead and respect people's privacy. I'd rather be exposed to violent crime than being watched everywhere.
- lukifer 13y agoStatistical analysis to figure the optimal use of police resources is a great idea, particularly to prevent violent crime and theft in public areas. What concerns me, however, is the idea of predictive analytics being used on the vast databases collected by NSA/GCHQ (there's no reason to suspect they're not doing this already). Such a system of "pre-crime" would be bound to have false positives, and suddenly based on your Google searches, movie preferences, musical tastes, friendships, or who knows what, the state decides that you are a "person of interest".