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Politics : The Surveillance State -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (239)11/24/2020 11:28:46 AM
From: Savant  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 617
 
On the occasion of a visit by local Communist Party leaders to the complex that year, it wrote on its website that the computers had “upgraded the thinking from after-the-fact tracking to before-the-fact predictive policing.”

In Xinjiang, predictive policing often serves as shorthand for pre-emptive arrests aimed at behavior deemed disloyal or threatening to the party.

*Slippery Slope