China using big data to detain people before crime is committed

Re:China using big data to detain people before crime is com... by threatofrain on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @04:39PM (#16487292)

Predictive policing is old, and has been done in consultation with universities before. There are papers on predicting crime vs criminals, predicting by time and address, predicting by age, etc., including discussion on whether this leads to uneven enforcement on minorities. It would be surprising to expect law enforcement to go towards less statistical and software usage.

What would be new would be formal preemptive detention by generic factors. Then again there was news covered by the Guardian on a police black site in Chicago that held thousands of largely black detainees without lawyers.

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Re:China using big data to detain people before crime is com... by forapurpose on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @05:45PM (#16487926)

> Predictive policing is old ...

Agreed, but technology changes everything (otherwise, what are we all doing?). Transporting goods by boat is thousands of years old (or probably more), but modern shipping has a completely different impact than millennia of wooden wind- and human-powered boats.

Surveillance is old; modern data collection and analysis is a whole different animal.

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Re:China using big data to detain people before crime is com... by jsnider3 on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @05:04PM (#16487544)

Formal preemptive detentive by generic factors is what is described in the article.

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