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Pre-crime detection is now a reality

Iain

Courtest of the US company Flock.

https://www.stopflock.com/

Not quite as specific as used in Minority Report, but the surveilance company Flock in the USA has started supplying Police with analysis of the movement of cars using number place recognition and is flagging up activity it considers suspicious.

A group of cars that seem to appear together a lot? Possible protester convoy or gang movements?

A car circling a bank location multiple times? Trying to park or casing it for a robbery?

No need for warrants as it can be considered "reasonable suspicion" to justify a stop and search event.

Once this sort of system starts tying in with mobile phone tracking then we will literally be under constant surveillance 24/7 and anything that looks suspicious will be flagged up by AI.

I realise this is a US based system at present but you can be sure it will be of interest to our government who are constantly monitoring our social media for undesirable comments and are quite happy to send the police round if you voice any support of, say, a genocide going on somewhere in the Middle East.

I'm not a believer in the "if you are doing nothing wrong you have nothing to hide" approach - we should have a right to live our lives out of the constant glare of Big Brother.

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  • I agree Iain, society is getting more cohersive and we are ever more survieled. I wonder how long it will be before someone with no smart phone and minimal internet pressense and no social media will be suspected of terrorsim or somehting? I mean I must have so much to hide, it couldn't possibly be because I don't know how to use it and if I did can't see the attraction of most of it. I get treated like I'm odd and maybe here illegally because I don't have two forms of photo ID, I have no passport, I have no need for one as I don't go anywhere and yet to open a new bank account or something I'm told I do. My 91 year old Mum can't open a new bank account because she has no passport or driving license, she's never driven and she's unlikely to start now. It's like fear of others has made us others in the eyes of officialdom. Does it not occur to them that if we were criminals we'd have all the right documentation because we'd have tame forgers to provide it?  We've done nothing wrong, and have noting to hide, but we're still treated with suspicion.

    I think a lot of people are fighting back, especially about genocide in Gaza, its older people with no careers to worry about who are holding placards and being arrested under anti terrorism laws, they're doing it for the cause and to protect younger people from having a terrorism charge following them around all thier lives.

    We all have something we value, even if we have nothing to hide, Big Brother is adept at using those things or people we value to bring us into line.

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  • I agree Iain, society is getting more cohersive and we are ever more survieled. I wonder how long it will be before someone with no smart phone and minimal internet pressense and no social media will be suspected of terrorsim or somehting? I mean I must have so much to hide, it couldn't possibly be because I don't know how to use it and if I did can't see the attraction of most of it. I get treated like I'm odd and maybe here illegally because I don't have two forms of photo ID, I have no passport, I have no need for one as I don't go anywhere and yet to open a new bank account or something I'm told I do. My 91 year old Mum can't open a new bank account because she has no passport or driving license, she's never driven and she's unlikely to start now. It's like fear of others has made us others in the eyes of officialdom. Does it not occur to them that if we were criminals we'd have all the right documentation because we'd have tame forgers to provide it?  We've done nothing wrong, and have noting to hide, but we're still treated with suspicion.

    I think a lot of people are fighting back, especially about genocide in Gaza, its older people with no careers to worry about who are holding placards and being arrested under anti terrorism laws, they're doing it for the cause and to protect younger people from having a terrorism charge following them around all thier lives.

    We all have something we value, even if we have nothing to hide, Big Brother is adept at using those things or people we value to bring us into line.

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