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A comment on Real-Time maps warn Hong Kong protesters of water cannons and riot police.

Re:Real-Time maps warn Hong Kong protesters of water cannons... by mamon on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @04:38AM (#20875177)
...and with Machine Learning scraping and analysing social media posts, police knows the location of the protest ahead of time.
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Re:Real-Time maps warn Hong Kong protesters of water cannons... by thinkingemote on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @05:19AM (#20875394)
Police will know this regardless of technology. The object is not for protestors to avoid the police, it's for the protestors to know where they are.

It's making information less asymmetric.

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Re:Real-Time maps warn Hong Kong protesters of water cannons... by guywhocodes on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @04:39AM (#20875186)
It's HKPD though. They are like 200 years away from that kind of capacity.
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