The Data Playbook of Future Policing
Your phone helps companies predict what you'll buy. The bigger question is, what happens when police use the same logic to predict what you'll do?
Your phone helps companies predict what you'll buy. What happens when police use the exact same technology to predict what you'll do? In this episode of reWandt, Professor Adam Scott Wandt explores the controversial shift toward Predictive Policing, where law enforcement adopts advanced commercial marketing algorithms to track, trace, and forecast human behavior based on invisible IoT data. Explore the ethics of the modern surveillance state at https://reWandt.com. #reWandt #PredictivePolicing #DataPrivacy
Key Takeaways & Core Ideas
- ▪The intersection of predictive marketing and modern law enforcement.
- ▪How police use consumer data logic to predict criminal behavior.
- ▪The ethical implications of data-driven future policing.
Source Excerpt
"Your phone helps companies predict what you'll buy. The bigger question is, what happens when police use the same logic to predict what you'll do?"
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