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Machine learning, artificial intelligence, algorithmic decision making–regardless of what you call it, and there is hot debate over that, this technology has been touted as a supposed threat to humanity, the future of work, as well as the hot new money-making doohickey. But one thing is for certain, with the amount of data required to input into these systems, law enforcement are seeing major opportunities, and our civil liberties will suffer the consequences. In one sense, all of the information needed to, for instance, run a self-driving car, presents a new opportunity for law enforcement to piggyback on new devices covered in cameras, microphones, and sensors to be their eyes and ears on the streets. This is exactly why even at least one U.S. Senator has begun sending letters to car manufacturers hoping to get to the bottom of exactly how much data vehicles, including those deemed autonomous or with “self-driving” modes, collect and who has access to them.
But in another way, the possibility of plugging a vast amount of information into a system and getting automated responses or directives is also rapidly becoming a major problem for innocent people hoping to go un-harassed and un-surveilled by police. So much has been written in the last few years about how predictive policing algorithms perpetuate […]
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