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Re:Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona priso... by frompdx on Monday February 22, 2021 @02:50PM (#26229607)
Except software allows a scale and efficiency that is impossible with pencil and paper while also creating an ideal scapegoat. Software is being used to avoid accountability at a scale much greater than what was possible with manual process.
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Re:Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona priso... by Kalium on Monday February 22, 2021 @03:14PM (#26229947)
The old saw about computers is that they're designed to allow humans to make millions of mistakes, very quickly and very accurately.
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Re:Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona priso... by Kinrany on Monday February 22, 2021 @03:42PM (#26230299)
> Software is being used to avoid accountability

Right, in the same way knives are used to rob people.

This is not a new problem: an organization strategically builds an unmanageable bureacracy and then profits off the issue while claiming incompetence.

Computers just make said bureaucracy cheaper to operate.

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Re:Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona priso... by phone8675309 on Monday February 22, 2021 @03:26PM (#26230081)
Isn't this the basis of the book "IBM and the Holocaust"[1] where the author lays out how IBM's technology helped facilitate the wide scale of Nazi genocide?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

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