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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  • So now it's enough if a group of friends meets regularly and go somewhere with their cars. It's already enough to suspect that they are doing some criminal activity and send the police. The police may finally decide this was not a criminal activity, but they may find something else illegal there. Any reason to send the cops might be good. With the mobile phones and social media I think it's already in place, but maybe not so openly. I honestly barely use social media and there are many platforms where I don't exist at all. For example Facebook, or tiktok.

  • The police may finally decide this was not a criminal activity, but they may find something else illegal there.

    For the police it is a great way to fish for other illegal activities that would otherwise have eluded them so there is an arguement that it is a good thing.

    My problem is that from experience, the government and law enforcement systems are not trustworthy. It is very clear with the way the police are used to arrest peaceful protestors because some element in power has deemed the protests unacceptable to public morality.

    Anyone with a knowledge of the 1930s history can see clear patterns of behaviour being established in the UK and USA which should send chills down their spine. 

  • I think that the worst thing in all this would be some absolutely innocent people being abused by this system.

  • I think that the worst thing in all this would be some absolutely innocent people being abused by this system.

    They are probably the people that police just think are a crime waiting to happen so they are helping us dodge a bullet.

    It is too useful for them to give up without a fight though.

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