Comment by adolph
15 days ago
Question: do you advocate for police to maintain dossiers on people's activities in order to arrest them once some combination of those activities cross the threshold? Like KYC for shoplifters? Do you think these records should be jurisdictionally/geographically limited?
I assume police already stores dossiers on reported crimes.
Initially it's a report. Place, time, allegation, supporting evidence.
The question is how much (automated) detection ought to be allowed, what's the retention period, and so on.
Flock is a bad trade-off, but that doesn't mean there's no point in collecting data. If every datum is a semi-tangible report, then the sensitivity/specificity has quite a good change of being high (especially compared to dragnet surveillance with post-hoc data fishing).