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Re:The NSA’s machine learning algorithm may be killing thous... by flashman on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @05:54AM (#11109050)
If you are going to put surveillance on potential terrorists, you should also be putting surveillance on people not suspected of being terrorists, so you can judge the rate at which your surveillance personnel falsely accuse people being terrorists based on having been selected for surveillance.

Single or double blind that process.

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Re:The NSA’s machine learning algorithm may be killing thous... by anc84 on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @06:48AM (#11109231)
They could put the surveillance on themselves for that good people control group. Oh wait...
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Re:The NSA’s machine learning algorithm may be killing thous... by mratzloff on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @10:28AM (#11110433)
That would be true if you were genuinely interested in avoiding innocent deaths. If you placed very little or no value on non-Western lives, then there would be no incentive to take that kind of extra care.
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