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elizabeth  ·  1712 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: New details on Palantir, the commerical spying tool for law enforcement

I've been having more and more mixed feelings about "laws" lately. I mean, police are an important part of keeping a society civil. Prisons (or some incarceration system) are needed for dangerous folks like serial killers. But the law enforcement always had some leeway, to get you off with a warning, being human and understanding and giving folks a chance. On the flip side, that leeway also allowed for some shitty practices like discrimination and biases to be common. And now with the fight for more fairness, and more and more perfect information of you crimes because of technology... EVERYONE BREAKS THE LAW (sometimes). And this surveillance shit is lacking humanity, and can fuck your life just cause you talked to the wrong people once and then the AI looked into your file. And now you're on the hook for some semi-illegal shit you did years ago.