{"id":16365,"date":"2016-01-12T13:13:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T18:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16365"},"modified":"2016-01-12T13:13:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T18:13:08","slug":"meet-beware-the-new-police-tool-that-data-mines-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16365","title":{"rendered":"Meet \u201cBeware\u201d \u2013 The New Police Tool That Data Mines Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meet \u201cBeware\u201d \u2013 The New Police Tool That Data Mines Your Life<\/a><\/h3>\n
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As officers respond to calls, Beware automatically runs the address. The searches return the names of residents and scans them against a range of publicly available data to generate a color-coded threat level for each person or address: green, yellow or red.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Exactly how Beware calculates threat scores is something that its maker, Intrado, considers a trade secret, so it is unclear how much weight is given to a misdemeanor, felony or threatening comment on Facebook. However, the program flags issues and provides a report to the user.<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013 From the Washington Post article:\u00a0The New Way Police are Surveilling You: Calculating Your Threat \u2018Score\u2019\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

When it comes to life on planet earth in 2016, it increasingly feels as if\u00a0we are all livestock constantly being monitored, prodded and surveyed by the oligarchy and its minions. The latest example revolves around a software program for police called Beware, developed by Intrado, which consists of a secret algorithm that determines an individual\u2019s threat levels based on a multitude of unknown\u00a0factors.<\/p>\n

Does it work? Does it violate civil liberties? Is there any public debate? These questions and more are addressed\u00a0in a recent\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>article<\/a>. Here are a few excerpts:<\/p>\n

FRESNO, Calif. \u2014<\/span>\u00a0While officers raced to a recent 911 call about a man threatening his ex-girlfriend, a police operator in headquarters consulted software that scored the suspect\u2019s potential for violence the way a bank might run a credit report.<\/em><\/p>\n

The program scoured billions of data points, including arrest reports, property records, commercial databases, deep Web searches and the man\u2019s social- media postings. It calculated his threat level as the highest of three color-coded scores: a bright red warning.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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