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The Ministry of Justice is developing a system that aims to ‘predict’ who will commit murder, as part of a “data science” project using sensitive personal data on hundreds of thousands of people.

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[-] aCosmicWave@lemm.ee 58 points 2 months ago

Because they will inevitably target minorities?

[-] whiskeytango@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago
[-] alphabethunter@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Because of the early 2000's movie Minority Report that has this exact same plot and is starred by Tom Cruise.

[-] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I feel it's time for a remake, maybe turn the three ~~sisters~~ precogs into 3 AI computers?

[-] Patch@feddit.uk 8 points 2 months ago

maybe turn the three sisters

Two of the three precogs were boys, by the way.

[-] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I definitely need to rewatch this movie again.

[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

It's just institutional racism with extra steps

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