There is a direct correspondence between: - Recording a license plate associated with some dubious activity, and then ticketing the owner of the car; and - Re

There is a direct correspondence between: - Recording a license plate associated with some dubious activity, and then ticketing the owner of the car; and - Recording an IP address associated with some dubious activity, and suing (or worse) the person who pays for the internet connection. There is a large and schizophrenic body of law about when an owner is responsible for the operation of "their" machine, even if they're not doing the immediate operating (going all the way back to "who pays the man gored by a rented ox"). With automated systems subject to shitty algorithms the problem becomes much more acute but it is by no means a new problem.