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Re:The NSA’s machine learning algorithm may be killing thous... by mike_hearn on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @08:27AM (#11109619)
The evidence is that the head of the NSA literally said, "we use metadata to kill people". It doesn't get more direct than that. Signature strikes are a well documented phenomenon by now.

Also there's no way the CIA drone program can sustain the kind of long term kill rates they've been having without routinely killing innocent people. Terrorists just aren't that common (although if you define anyone who tries to seek revenge thanks to an errant drone strike as a terrorist, that "problem" can eventually solve itself).

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Re:The NSA’s machine learning algorithm may be killing thous... by 15charlimit on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @08:56AM (#11109773)
I can't believe I'm actually defending the NSA here, but "we use metadata to kill people" does not mean "we ONLY use metadata and nothing else".
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Re:The NSA’s machine learning algorithm may be killing thous... by tremon on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @11:57AM (#11111221)
Of course, they also use bullets.

/s

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