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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] aramis87@fedia.io 4 points 42 minutes 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.

[–] beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 50 minutes ago

Obviously this will eventually be weaponized against citizens and that will be a bad day when it happens. But like if you're dumb enough to be committing crimes and putting the money into the banking system without laundering it, you've kind of got it coming. At least squirell it away in an anonymous crypto wallet, those stupid machines are everywhere.

[–] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

FINALLY! They can go After RICH PEOPLE BREAKING THE LAW! There's NO way This gets Used to Arrest POOR PEOPLE who Can't pay and Then go to Prison instead when there's SO MANY RICH PEOPLE WHO CAN PAY THE TICKETS FOR ALL THE LAWS THEY KEEP BREAKING!

[–] LocalAreaMan@lemmy.world 1 points 14 minutes ago

It'd be hilariously awesome if that was the case, prole cops scanning the horizon for whales to go after.