If you know even a little about how companies use personal data to make uncannily precise guesses about our future behavior, you know it would be child’s play to flag potential mass killers. They do it to sell soap flakes. They can do it to save lives.https://twitter.com/nickconfessore/status/1077194681103142912 …
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Back here in reality, there is a wide range of decision points between flagging an activity as potentially suspicious and hauling someone in to court. Cops can and do make such distinctions every day.
So the idea here is to flag thousands of potential mass murderers, send data on them to the police, and have the police dig into their private lives?
