No one — absolutely no one — saw this coming: "The UK government is developing a “murder prediction” programme which it hopes can use personal data of those known to the authorities to identify the people most likely to become killers."
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/08/uk-creating-prediction-tool-to-identify-people-most-likely-to-kill
This is far, far more sinister than anything even Philip K. Dick could dream of.
#precrime #thoughtcrime #privacy
Harry Sintonen /
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2025-04-18 11:07:30
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