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DHS Program Analyzes Americans' Finances to Flag Drivers for Traffic Stops: Report (www.military.com)

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[–] aramis87@fedia.io 8 points 1 hour ago

The program's stated purpose is to identify people who may have already committed crimes, according to 404 Media. But the outlet reported finding no instances of that happening. Instead, it reported that the program appears to generate pretexts for police to stop and search people, raising questions about whether the stops meet the legal standard of probable cause. [...] "genuine probable cause cannot be synthetically generated," adding that Border Patrol appeared to be using "parallel construction" to conceal the real reason for its stops.