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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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  • Hate to say, "I told you, so!" but I did say, before last year's General Election, that a Labour Victory would deliver Full-Scale Big Brother. However, so many in Blighty let Boris in their head; Rent-Free.

    The Shift is towards Reform. However, this is so embedded that any change of Party in power is too little too late.

    While there's a growing consensus that the system's designed to aid those at the, extreme, top, people are mislead into believing that Jeremy Corbyn has the answer. But, as I said, the framework is laid out. It's about getting right with our creator, while we still have the chance.

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  • Hate to say, "I told you, so!" but I did say, before last year's General Election, that a Labour Victory would deliver Full-Scale Big Brother. However, so many in Blighty let Boris in their head; Rent-Free.

    The Shift is towards Reform. However, this is so embedded that any change of Party in power is too little too late.

    While there's a growing consensus that the system's designed to aid those at the, extreme, top, people are mislead into believing that Jeremy Corbyn has the answer. But, as I said, the framework is laid out. It's about getting right with our creator, while we still have the chance.

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