This article is the best answer to people who say that they have “nothing to hide”.

China’s Communist Party is stepping up the use of big data to predict people’s behavior in a bid to identify “social risks” and prevent violent attacks on members of the public in the wake of the car killings in Zhuhai earlier this month.

  • lad@programming.dev
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    6 days ago

    To be an advocate for the devil here, I’d say that it’s a compelling goal to build a safer environment by leveraging technology. My view is that the problem is it usually gets used for other goals like personal power, wealth, influence, removing competitors, etc

    • m_f@midwest.social
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      6 days ago

      Totally. Even if you have good intentions, it will be abused at some point, either by you or someone else with bad intentions.