Re:ICE held an American man in custody for 1,273 days. He’s ...
by sitkack on Saturday April 28, 2018 @06:37AM
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> Carrillo’s arrest highlights pitfalls in ICE’s digitally driven search for the deportable. At the core of the hunt are massive federal databases containing records on citizenship, crime, foreign travel, education and work.
ICE should not be using these databases for this purpose. This is a really low quality way to do police work. The amount of water you need to pump through the baleen to get a meal has to be enormous and foreign key relationships will be some substring match. Using these databases as the source of the crime will be so rife with errors as to be unethical. This is not unlike the famous case, Buttle vs Tuttle [0]
ICE should not be using these databases for this purpose. This is a really low quality way to do police work. The amount of water you need to pump through the baleen to get a meal has to be enormous and foreign key relationships will be some substring match. Using these databases as the source of the crime will be so rife with errors as to be unethical. This is not unlike the famous case, Buttle vs Tuttle [0]
[0] https://youtu.be/nWbIxFKtTmE?t=91