Pre-crime detection is now a reality

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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  • Perhaps Robocop next? I can’t see that being too far out. Science fiction movies seem to be foretellers quite often. Total Recall and Johnny cab, now we have Tesla and self driving cars as one example. Jumping light years ahead with this one but maybe even Star Wars is future science fiction, a political landscape of not just counties but planets too. 

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  • Perhaps Robocop next? I can’t see that being too far out. Science fiction movies seem to be foretellers quite often. Total Recall and Johnny cab, now we have Tesla and self driving cars as one example. Jumping light years ahead with this one but maybe even Star Wars is future science fiction, a political landscape of not just counties but planets too. 

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